Excerpt from Thoughts Upon Hunting: In a Series of Familiar Letters to a FriendA S the author of the following letters hath been charged with inhumanity, and yet conjectured to be a clergyman it is now become nece¿'ary to publi¿l his name: and tho' it may not be ufual to anfwer an anonymous writer, yet, as it is not impofiible that fome readers may have adopted his fentiments, this confideration, and this alone, induces the author to anfwer the objections which the critic hath fo, wan tonly, made. Whatever may be the imperfection of thefe letters, the author is defirous that it {bould fall, as it ought, upon himfelf only. The objections, which he thinks were unnece¿'arily made.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.