INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



Hence, we may perhaps conclude, greyhounds 

 with erect ears, being painted in the catacombs of 

 the kings of Thebes, in Egypt, above 3,000 years 

 ago, and sculptured in Greece, with them half de- 

 flected, not earlier than the era of Pericles, that 

 these animals, the oldest race trained for hunting, 

 were marked with this sign of domesticity about 

 his period, or near one thousand years after the 

 date of the first known pictures, or that the Egyp- 

 tian were distinct from those of Europe. Again, 

 hounds, and broad-mouthed dogs with pendulous 

 ears, not being known till the era of Alexander, 

 and continuing scarce to a comparatively late period, 

 that they belong to a distinct origin ; were reduced 

 to domesticity at a subsequent time ; or were re- 

 claimed in a region very remote from the then ex- 

 isting seat of civilization. Finally, that with them 

 also the pendulous mark of domestication was a 

 gradual result effected somewhat later. 



Yet the single exception we have noticed is suffi- 

 cient to establish the fact, that dogs with pendulous 

 ears existed at a very remote period ; for the figure 

 is found in the scenes relating to the chase published 

 by Cailland, and taken (we believe) from the cata- 

 combs of the kings of Thebes. In this instance, it 

 is not a greyhound, but a lyemer, or dog led by a 

 leash, slender bodied, high on the legs, with a 

 truncated tail carried high, and even marked on 

 the flank like a modern hound of the rusty-grey 

 breed of the East. The hunter, holding a bow in 

 its case, leads the dog by a slip rope, as was done 



