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Chap. VI. be fine, close, and soft. " The best dogs are such as are 

 large and well put together, and resemble bitches in point of 

 suppleness ; and the best bitches are such as resemble dogs 

 in spirit, and muscularity of body. ^ 



Now if any one pays attention to these hints, as to the shape 

 of greyhounds, they will fully supply him, in my opinion, with 

 the indications of good blood for his kennel, and the opposite 

 of the reverse. 



Chap. VII. 



Indications 

 from Temper. 



Nor will the temper of greyhounds afford fewer indications 

 of good and bad blood to a careful observer. ^ Such hounds, 

 in the first place, as are crabbed to all persons alike, are not of 

 a generous breed. But if you find any cross to strangers, and 



Hist. Natur. 

 torn. v\ 241. 



De Canibus 



Britannicis 



Libellus. 



De Quad. Digit. 



Vivip. L. in. 



Sect. IV. 

 p. 262. 



Aristotelis 

 Physiognom. 



2. €iT€ oiv Tov Saffeos "yivovs, efre rod ^i\ov rvxoiev oi Kvvis. These two varieties 

 still exist ; but the rough, or wire-haired variety of greyhound is banished from the 

 kennel of modem coursers ; for though this ^aah yevos may show some fire and 

 speed in a short course in an enclosed country, it is always beaten by the y^iKhu yivos 

 over a champaign country, where the duration of the contest defies ignoble compe- 

 tition. 



Buffon derives the wiry hair from commixture with the spaniel, " le poil long de 

 certains l^vriers vient du melange des espagneuls :" but if such be its origin, the 

 text proves it to have been of remote antiquity. 



" Est strigosum genus," says Caius, " in quo alii majores sunt, alii rainores ; alii 

 pilo sessili, alii hirto." And Ulysses Aldrovandus has left us rude sketches of the 

 two varieties under the titles of " C. leporarius hirsutus albus," and " C. leporarius 

 alter ferruginei coloris." See also " The Countrey Farme," c. xxii. Schneider 

 quotes Synesius Laud. Calvit. p. G7. iKeivai ao<pwTaTai rwv kwwv, k. t. X. : see the 

 passage in his note on the Greek text. It does not appear to what variety of dog the 

 author alludes. 



3. So also the Cynosophium of Demetrius of Constantinople, KoKhv e« rQ fieyiOei 

 TOV ffdofxaros rj 67]\i\ Trpocr^Keirot &^^ivi. But I do not remember to have seen these 

 remarks of Arrian on the dog partaking of the bitch's form, and the bitch of the 

 dog's, in any of the more ancient Cynegetica of Greece and Rome. The Byzantine 

 physician doubtless derived the hint from our author. 



1. Aristotle admits the possibility of distinguishing by outward manifestations the 

 innate qualities and tempers of animals ; such discrimination is the result of parti- 

 cular experience : twv &\\uv ^coccv ol irepl eKaffTOf (■ni<nriixot'(s (k rrjs iSias Biadtaeus 

 Svvavrai Qiupuv, iwrriKoi re 'lirirovs, Kol Kwriyhai Kvvas. 



