Class I. DOG. 



The firft variety is the Terrarius or Terier, 

 which takes its name from its fubterraneous em- 

 ploy ; being a fmall kind of hound, ufed to force 

 the fox, or other beafts of prey, out of their holes •, 

 fand in former times) rabbets out of their burrows 

 into necs. 



Tre Lever arius^ or Harrier^ is a fpecies well 

 known ac prtlenc •, it derives its name from its ufe, 

 that of hunting the hare ; but under this head may 

 be placed the fox-hound, which is only a ftronger 

 and fleeter variety, applied to a different chace*. 



The Sanguinarius^ or Blocdhoundj or the Shut- 

 boundef of tht Scots, was a dog of great ufe, and im 

 high elteem with our ancellors : its employ was 

 to recover any game that bad efcaped wounded 

 from the hunter -, or been killed and flole out of 

 theforeft. It was remarkable for the acutenefs of 

 its fmeil, tracing the loft beaft by the blood it had 

 fpilt •, from whence the name is derived : Thia 



^ Prince Grifith ap Conan (who began his reign in the 

 year 1079) divided hunting into three kinds : the firft and 

 robleft fort was the Helfa ddolef, which is hunting for the me- 

 lody of the cry, or notes of the pack : The fecond fort was 

 iot Helfa gyfartha, or hunting when the animal ilood at bay : 

 The laft kind was the Helfa gyffredin, i, e. common hunting ; 

 which was no more than the right any perfon had, who hap- 

 pened accidentally to come in at the death of the game, to 

 claim a (hare. Le-.:2s\s Hijl. of Wales, 56. 



f From the Saxon Slot t;ie impreffion that a deer leaves of 

 its foot in the mire, and hind a dog. So they derive their 

 name from following the track, 



fpecies 



