120 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
HistoricAL EvVIpDENCE—ENGLAND. 
Ancient British Period. — Dio Niceeus, speaking 
of the inhabitants of the northern parts of this 
island, tells us they were a fierce and barbarous 
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CRANIUM OF WOLF. UPPER SURFACE, (3 NAT. SIZE.) 
people, who tilled no ground, but lived upon the 
depredations they committed in the southern dis- 
tricts or upon the food they procured by hunting. 
Strabo also says (lib. iv.) that the dogs bred in 
Britain were highly esteemed upon the Continent on 
account of their excellent qualities for hunting, and 
these qualities, he seems to hint, were naturai to 
