1850.] 87 



We find this animal also on the monunnents of the Xllth dynasty, where it 

 presents some modifications much as we see them in the present day. * 



9. TueWolt-Dog. (C. po'mera7ivs.) This animal is also well represented at 

 Beni Hassan, with all the characteristics that can be embraced in a drawing that 

 is little more than an outline, f It is also figured on an ancient Etruscan ? medal 

 of the second or third century B. C. | 



It will be observed that two of the preceding varieties of dog are coeval with 

 the earliest hieroglyphic symbols ; and as these last cannot be later than the age 

 of Menes, the first king of Egypt, we may safely date them, on the chronology of 

 Lepsius, as far back as that epoch, viz. 3893 B. C, or 5743 years from our own 

 time; but how much further, we have not, at present, even the means of forming 

 a reasonable conjecture. 



One other form the long-eared greyhound dates, as we have seen, with the 

 3rd dynasty about 3500 years B. C. Six additional forms date with the 12th 

 dynasty, which ended B. C. 2124 ; and as the tombs of Roti and Nevopth belong 

 to the reign of Osortasen Ilnd, they are placed by Lepsius in the twenty-third 

 century before Christ. 



I give these pictorial data as a part only of the series ; for of the eight hundred 

 plates announced by Dr. Lepsius as in progress of publication, but thirty-five 

 have yet reached this country ; and for these I am indebted to the kindness of that 

 distinguished scholar who has at length raised the "Veil of Isis," and given dates 

 to the hitherto chaotic Monuments of the Nile. 



The Rev. Dr. Bachman quotes Hamilton Smith to show that three thousand 

 years ago, two varieties only of the dog were known. This was excusable in a 

 naturalist who, at the time of publishing his Caiiidm, (1839,) could not have seen 

 the complete iconography of either Champolllon or Rosellini ; and again, at that 

 period the earliest sculptures and paintings were unknown, nor had the 

 series been chronologically arranged a consummation that gives them nearly 

 their whole value in a zoological sense. The Hebrew chronology ascribes the 

 Deluge to the year 2340 B. C. Now three of these dogs date nearly a thousand 

 years earlier in time, and all the rest belong to the twenty-third century before 

 our era. Col. Smith's views were in accordance with the knowledge of the coex- 

 istent time ; but any one who had taken the pains even to look over Rosellini's 

 plates, might have obtained additional information on this question. 



10. The Bull-Dog (C. molossns.) This animal is admirably figured on a 

 piece of antique Greek sculpture in the Vatican. The form and expression of 

 the head are perfectly characteristic, even to the peculiar arrangement of the 

 teeth. It is remarked by Holland in his Travels in Greece, that the Bull-dog 

 is yet the dominant variety of Albania, where it has been trained to guard the 

 flocks, and thus to take the place of the Shepherd's dog. 



11. Mastiff (C. laniarius.) I have not yet detected this dog on thelvfilotic 

 monuments ; but it is mentioned by Aristotle and seen on two ancient Greek 

 medals, one of which, that of Segestus of Sicily, dates with the 4th or 5th century 

 B.C. The other, which is of Aquila Severa, Dictator of Crete, is about two 

 centuries later. || 



Rosellini, Mon. Tav. XVI, fig. 5. 

 tRosellini,Mon. Tav. XVII, fig. 5. 

 j Blainville, Osteographie, Canis, pi. XIV. 

 Blainville, Osteographie, Canis, p. 74. 

 II Idem. 



