ABSTRACT
THERE are two species of hare, of which the mountain hare is the larger and the field hare the smaller. In the second category are found rabbits, whose numbers grow excessively through their quick and generally detrimental reproduction, as Pliny, in Bk VIII, Ch. 29, and Strabo in Bk III remark in their sections on rabbits. Nevertheless these creatures are at no time, or at any rate seldom, met with in the North, since the ground freezes so hard that in winter they have not the strength to burrow into it as they can in the sandy regions of Germany, Holland, and elsewhere. 1 Hare meat is an extremely common and familiar food in the North, especially when stewed according to the popular recipe in its own black gravy, which is very wholesome; otherwise the flesh is roasted. 2
