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amongst whom they were first bred, and held in repute for their 

 nasal sagacity. For a full description of these smaller hounds of 

 Gaul, the reader is referred to the cited chapter ; and attached to 

 luy translation of the same, he will find a few illustrative notes. 

 The remarks of Belin de Ballu, in his Animadversiones in Oppia- 

 nuni, show strange misapprehension of the ancient distinctions in the 

 Aniinadvers. in Celtic kennels. The chiens courans of modern France are not the 



Oppian.Lj'neg. 



1. 373. vveprpayoi Kvres of the younger Xenophon ; nor are the latter's 



'Ej-yovmai the *' genus canum, quorum pili instar velleris ovium 



crispantur," as incorrectly stated by this most learned editor of the 



Greek poet of the chase. The Segusians are rather the highs of the 



present day — perhaps the bassets, a small variety of terrier-beagle, 



used in rabbit-huntina:.! 



Seell.Sleplian, 



Scliediasm. 



IV. 2. 



Du Gauge 

 Glossal', ill 



A preface to 

 tlie Reader. 



minated by Arrian ? — wliy may not their title be of local origin, as affirmed by him, 

 rather than connected with tlieir sagacious qualities, as supposed by Vlitius ? who 

 would view them as Canes Seg^usii vel Secutii — the latter term being applied to the 

 Canes Inductores — " quia hominera sequentcmducit Inductor," with which the Dutch 

 annotator hulds the Segusian to be identical. Spelman enumerates the synonyms 

 oi segutius, as seusis, sensius, &c. &c. — See Gloss. Arch. p. 114. and derives them a 

 sequendo. Eccard more correctly, I think, refers to the German suchen, or rather 

 Saxon seuken investigare, whence sucker, seuker investigator, and with a Latin 

 termination, suehius, seucius, seusius, secusius, segusius, &c. The Spaniards, 

 according to Wase, '' have a blood-hound which is called un podenco" of small 

 stature, with which they "prick through the woods, or follow any chase." Possibly 

 Vlitius may have had this hound in his eye when he interpreted the Canes Segusii 

 as Inductores. 



1. 'there is no variety of sagacious dog, no style of hunting, to which the prefatory 

 encomiums of Wase are more strict!}' applicable, (however quaint the language in 

 whicli they are conveyed,) than the beagle tribe, and their various chases. " It is 

 admirable," says this friend of Edmund Waller, " to observe the naturall instinct of 

 enmity and cunning, whereby one beast being, as it were, confederate with man, by 

 whom he is maintained, serves bim in his designes upon others. A curious mind is 

 exceedingly satisfy'd to see the game fly before him, and after that hath withdrawn 

 itselfe from his sight, to see the whole line where it hatii pass'd over with all the 

 doublings and cross-works, which the amazed beast hath made, recover'd again, and 

 all that maze wrought out by the intelligence wliich he holds with dogs : this is most 

 pleasant, and, as it were, a master-piece of natural magique," &c. See also Gervase 

 Markham's Countrey Contentments, 15. i. c. iv. 



