234 APPENDIX. 



The Hyrcanian, savage as he was, is reported to have increased 

 his natural ferocity by engendering vi^ith the tiger : 



Giatii Cyneg. Sed non Hjrcanae satis est veheraenlia genti 



vs 159 /v N 



Tanta; suis petiere ultro fera semina sylvis. 



Dat Venus accessus, et blando foedere jungit. 



Tunc et niansuetis tuto ferus errat adulter 



In stabulis, ultroque gravis succedere tigriin 



Ausa caiiis, niajure tuiit de sanguine foetum. 



And to the subsequent generations of this cross Bargaius gives speed 

 in pursuit, and courage in attack : 



P. A. Bargaei Sic itaque imraanes duxere e tigride mores 



J ^' ' ' Hyrcani, quibus exuti post deinde nepotes 



Sive ursos, sive illi apros videre niinaces, 

 Accurrunt celrres, et aperto marte lacessunt. 



The breed of Hyrcania, having escaped the notice of Aristotle and 



his copyist Pliny, is of course omitted by Solinus, (whose work 

 The Goveruour. entitled Polifhistor, however " mervaylous delectable" in the 



opinion of Sir Thomas Elyot, is a mere breviary of the twice-told 

 Aristot. Hist, tales of the too credulous Roman naturalist,) but the same fabulous 

 L. vui. C.28. union with the tiger is recorded by them as the parent stock of the 



Indian dog. May not the Indian and Hyrcanian, though separated 



to in his days, because it was not wanted — " tanta feritate et astutii non egemus :" 



Wase's ^^^ Wase bears testimony to its historical notoriety. " From the experience of this 



Illustrations, country," says lie, " that semi/era proles, or whelps, that come of the commixture of 



*■ ''■ * a bitch with a dog-wolf, is verified, called anciently /(/cisctp ; and this ill quality they 



find inherent to that sort of dogs, that they can by no way of bringing up be restrained 



Gratii Cyneg. from preying upon cattle — ' sed prajceps virtus ipsa venabitur aula' — by which they 



vs. 107. have merited to be esteemed criminal before they be whelped; and there is a law in 



that behalf, which straitly enjoins, that if any bitch be limed with a wolf, either she 



must be hanged immediately, or her puppies must be made away : this may serve to 



avouch somewhat, all tliat character which Gratius gives of the seraiferous mongrels, 



of his Hyrcanian and the Tiger."' 



Parry's By the occurrences which took place at Melville Island, recorded in the Appendix 



1st Voyage of ofCapt. Parry's 1st Voyage, we have clear proof that even an undomesticated wolf, 



\ni ei dix ^^ '^^ natural and wild state, will have intercourse with a domestic dog. 



