spots thus inclosed were usually in a hilly country and in the vicinity of water-brooks ; whence the propriety and force of the language of Psa. xlii, 1, "As the (hunt- ed) hart panteth after the water-brooks." These places were selected because they were those to which the an- imals were in the habit of repairing in the morning and evening. Scenes like the one now supposed are found portrayed in tlie Egj^tian paintings (Wilkinson), Homids were used for hunting in Egypt, and, if the passage in Josephus {Ant. iv, 8, 9) may be considered decisive, iii Palestine as well. From Gen. xxvii, 3, " Now take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow," we learn what arms were employed at least in capturing game. BuUs, after being taken, were kept at least for a time in a net (Isa. li, 20). Various missiles, pitfalls, snares, and gins were made use of in hunting (Psa. xci, 3; Amos iii, 5; 2 Sam. xxiii, 20). See the various an- imals and means of capture enumerated above in their ali)liabetical i)lace. That hunting continued to be fol- lowed till toAvards the end of the Jewish state appears from Josephus {War, i, 20, 13), where the historian speaks of Herod as " ever a most excellent hunter, for in one day he caught forty wild beasts." The same passage makes it clear that horses were employed in the pursuits of the chase (compare Josephus, A nt. xv, 7, 7 ; xvi, 10, 3). — Kitto. See Chase.
The prophets sometimes depict war imdcr the idea of hunting : " I will send for many hunters," says Jere- miah, " and they shall hunt them from everj- mountain, and from every hUl, and out of the holes of the rocks" (xvi, 16), referring to the Chalda?ans, who held the Jews under their dominion, or, according to others, to the Per- sians, who set the Hebrews at liberty. Ezekiel also (xxxii, 30) speaks of the kings, who were persecutors of the Jews, under the name of hunters. The psalmist thanks God for having delivered him from the snares of the hunters [Eng. trans. " fowler"] (Psa. xci, 3). Mi- cah complains (vii, 2) that every one lays ambuscades for his neighbor, and that one brother hunts after an- other to destroy him. Jeremiah (Lam. iii, 52) repre- sents Jerusalem as complaining of her enemies, who have taken her, like a bird, in their nets. — Calmet. See Net.
Huntingdon, Selina, Countess of, a lady distin- guished in the religious history of the 18th century, was born Aug. 24, 1707, and was one of the tliree daughters and co-heirs of Washuigton Shirley, earl of Ferrers. Se- lina, the second daughter, married, in 1728, Theophilus Hastings, earl of Huntingdon, a nobleman of retired habits, with whom she appears to have had a very hap- py life till his sudden death, on the 13th of October, 1746, of a fit of apoplexy. She had many children, four of whom died in youth or early manhood. It was proba- bly these domestic afflictions which disposed this lady to take the course so opposite to that which is gener- ally pursued by the noble and the great. She became deeply religious. It was at the time when the preach- ers and fomiders of Methodism, Wesley and Whiteficld, were rousing in the country, by their exciting minis- try, a spirit of more intense devotion than was generally prevalent, and leading men to look more to what are called the distinguishing truths of the Gospel than to its moral teachings, to which the clergy had for some time chiefly attended in their public ministrations. She found in these doctrines matter of consolation and de- light, and she sought to make others participate with her in the advantages they were believed by her to af- ford. The character of her religion, as well as of her mind, was too decided to allow it to shrink from promi- nence ; on the contrarv, her high soid compassionated the fearful condition of the wealthy and noble, and she boldly sought to spread the influences of Jlethodism, not only through the highest aristocracy of the realm, but to the royal family itself. Slie took Whitefield un- der her especial patronage, defied all ecclesiastical or- der, and even engaged him to hold sers'ices in her own residence, which she invited her friends of the nobili-
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