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adaptation of canine ferocity the Ccltiv were not peculiar ; but as 

 dogs, thus applied, can scarce be considered in their sporting 

 character, it is unnecessary to multiply citations. Let the few 

 instances hereafter adduced suffice on this head. Whether these 

 Celtic dogs are the Gallic hybrids of the natural historian I cannot 

 say : " hoc idem," says Pliny, " e lupis Galli, quorum greges suura L. vm. c. 40. 

 quisque ductorem e canibus et Lyciscam habent. Ilium in venatu Emend. 

 comitantur, illi parent. Namque inter se exercent etiam magis- 

 teria." There were whole packs of these dogs in every chase or 

 forest, " that had for their leader some particular demi-wolf, which 

 the rest accompanied in hunting, obeyed, and were directed by; 

 keeping an order among themselves of government and mastership." 

 Gratius mentions, in the next place, the Ser, the Lycaonian or 

 Arcadian, the Hyrcanian, and the union of the latter with the 

 tiger. 



Sunt qui Seras alant, genus intractabilis irte ; Gratii Cyneg. 



At contra faciles, magnique Lycaones armis. ^ ' 



The Serae were a nation of Ethiopia near the origin of the Nile, 

 and also of India between the Indus and Hydaspes : but " the 

 famous Serse were a people of Asia, the farthest to the east beyond 

 China towards Scythia without Imaus," according to Wase's 

 geography of Gratius. As the poet does not record the fame of the 

 Canes Indici under their usual denomination, we may consider the 

 Seric dog as the redoubted Indian — " genus intractabilis ir«." 



The Indian dog is noticed by Herodotus, Aristotle, Xenophon, 

 Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Plutarch, Pollux, iElian, Athenaeus, The- 



Fouilloux in the first chapter of his Venerie — " De la race et antiquite des chiens 



courans, et qui premierement les aroena en France," will amuse such of my 



readers as may think his work worth referring to. Deducing the breed from the 



kennel of Brutus, (the son of Sylvius, the son of Ascanius, the son of J2neas) under La Venerie de 



whose fostering care les chiens courans et Uvriers were exported from the Trojan Jaques du 



territory, Fouilloux exhibits the very vessel of transportation, with its canine cargo 



aboard. 



3. It is a generally received opinion that the pugnacious and sagacious dogs of 

 Britain were constantly exported to Gaul ; and Janus Vlitius remarks that the same Venatio 

 practice continued within his knowledge. Novantiqua. 



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