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THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ALMANAC.
THE    CHASE    IN    OLD    OAUL.
 

hunting and Avar dogs of Gaul and Britain Avere re- I tiA-e business Avas carried on by
nowned for their courage and SAviftness, and a lucra- j ready trained,  for exportation
 

IN ancient time.s
the chase was, of
all delights, after
war, that Avhich Avas
held in the highest
estimation. Plato
called it a div-ine
exercise ; Lycurgus
recommended it to
the Greeks ; Pliny
assures us that mon¬
archy OAved its birth
to it; Buffbn declar¬
ed it Avas the pastime
of heroes, Avho alone
should bo permitted
to enjoy it. In an¬
cient times it pre-
serAed the people's
flocks from the jaAvs
of the Avolf, destroy¬
ed those animals
which, liA'ing, Avould
have destroyed their
harA-ests; proA-iding
nourishing food for
hungry families, and
being the means
whereby clothing
was procured. The
naked Avives and
daughters of Old
Gaul and Ancient
Britain adopted it
as one of their ordi¬
nary domestic occu¬
pations, selectingfor
their pursuit the
more timid and least
dangerous animals,
and leaving to their
braAvn ey, h i r s u t e,-
sk in-clad lords
those noxious bea.sts
to whom Nature had
imparted strength,
ferocity and cunning
in the highest de¬
gree. In those days
the hunt was a kind
of apprenticeship to
war. WheneA'er the
Gauls had captured a
stag, each put on one
side some money;
these united small
sums Avent to buy a
victim, Avhich they
offered to theGoddess
of the Hunt, and the
ceremony terminat¬
ed Avith a feast, at
Avliich their dogs a.s-
sisted, croAvned Avith
floAvers. The old
those who sold them,
to Rome.
 

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS.

Estimated Number of English-speaking Religious
Sects forming communities throughout the Avorld :

Episcopalian............................. 17,050,000

Methodists (of all kind.s)..................13,000,000

Roman Catholics......................10,000,000

Presbyterians (of every kind)..............  10,000,000

Baptists (of all descriptions)..............    8,500,000

Congregationalists........................    7,000.000

Unitarians..............................    1,000,000

Minor Religious Sects....................    1,500,000

Of No Fixed ReMgion....................    6,950,000

English-speaking Population..........76,000,000
 

1   POPULATION AND EXPENDITURE PER
'                              DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
 

HEAD OF
 

("■nnntr-ioc            Populatioii. iExpeudituro.

1              '"         i
 

Per Head.

£     s. d.
 

ICngland...........
 

.30,611,305

38,067,094

3,735,682

25,527,915

38,272,112

16,301,850

35,943,592

4,323,993

5,0.34,742

24,106,847

76,497,168
 

74,972,815

85,133,626

8,069,585

46,030,000

64,298,119

26,564,7»

54,261,827

5,120,836

7,061,000

25,1.30,474

66,038,278
 

2     5   1
 

France............
 

2     4   8
 

Netherlands.......

Italy...............
 

2     3   2
1   16   0
 

United States.....

Spain..............
 

1   13   7
1   12   5
 

Austria............
 

1   10   2
 

Portus;al...........
 

13   7
 

Belgium...........
 

18   3
 

Prussia............
 

10   9
 


 

1   17   5