Class I. DOG. 65 



The variety called the Highland gre- hound, and 

 now become very fcarce, is of a very great fize, 

 Itrong, deep chefted, and covered with lono- and 

 rough hair. This kind was much efleemed in 

 former days, and ufed in great numbers by the pow- 

 erful! chieftains in their tpagnificent hunting matches. 

 It had as fagacious noftnls as the Blood- hound^ and 

 was as fierce. This feems to be the kind Boethius 

 ftyles, gemis venaticum cum celerrimtim turn audacij/i- 

 mum : nee modo in feras, fed in hoftes etiam latronef- 

 que\ pr^fertimft dominum du5ioremve injuriam affici 

 cernat aut in eos concitetur. 



The third fpecies is the Levinarius, or Lorarius ; 

 The Leviner or Lyemmer : the firft name is deriv- 

 ed from the lightnefs of the kind ; the other from 

 the old word Lyemme^ a thong : this fpecies being 

 ufed to be led in a thong, and flipped at the game. 

 Our author fays, that this dog was a kind that 

 hunted both by fcent and fight ; and in the form 

 of its body obferved a medium between tfie hound, 

 and the gre-hound. This probably is the kind 

 now known to us by the name of the Iriflj gre- 

 hound, a dog now extremely fcarce in that king- 

 dom, the late king of Poland having procured ^ 

 from them as many as poflible. I have k^n two 

 or three in the whole ifland : they were of the kind 

 called by M de Buffon Le grand Banois, and pro- 

 bably imported there by the Banes who long pof- 

 fefled that kingdom. Their ufe feems originally 

 to have been for the chafe of wolves with which 



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