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reclaimed, be derived, through such intermediate links, from the 

 same parent source ? The coarser varieties of the North, and of the 

 sister Isle, are rarely seen in South Britain ; and though at first 

 closely connected with the Celt, and amongst his earliest descen- 

 dants, are now considered farther removed from the genuine type of 

 Celtica, the oveprpayos kvwv of the Greek manual, in consequence of 

 commixture with the canes bellicosi and sagaces. 



The strongest evidence we possess of the greyhound's existence in 

 Britain, in the reigns of Carus, his sons, and Diocletian, is afforded 

 by the Cynegeticon of the African poet. For although I deny that 

 this hound can be entitled to the local epithet Britannicus, bestowed 

 on him by Spelman, to the superseding his usual titles, I readily 

 grant, at the same time, that the exported veloces of Britain, of the 

 Nemesian. Cy- Cynegeticon alluded to, were greyhounds. Nemesian must be con- 

 neget. vs. 124. gj^j^j-^^j almost entirely the poet of the pedibus celeres ;— at least, in 

 that portion of his hunting-poem which has survived the ravages of 

 time. But the usual terms by which the greyhound is designated in 

 Ovid, Gratius, Martial, and Arrian, are no where found in the poet 

 of Carthage ; in place of which invariably occur the terms caluli 

 veloces. That by these terms the latter author intends hounds of the 

 Celtic type, I have, on a careful re- perusal of his work, not the least 

 doubt ; though, when writing the note to the Preface, p. 11, I was 

 inclined to view the veloces, particularly specified by Nemesian as of 

 British export, as nimble harriers, rather than genuine greyhounds ; 

 and did not in consequence adduce the passage alluded to, when 

 there endeavouring to fix the period of the latter's introduction into 

 Britain. Indeed, J. Vlitius, himself sceptical at first as to the na- 

 ture of these swift-footed hounds, (see his remarks on Nemesian 

 vs. 124.,) comes round to my conclusion in the progress of his anno- 

 tations, (see his notes on vs. 233.). Nearly the whole of Nemesian 's 

 instructions have reference to canes cursores, beginning with their 

 exportation from our own island — where, doubtless, they had been 

 previously imported from Gaul — 



Nemesian. Cy- , ^''}'^ Britannia mitlit 



neget. vs. 124. Veloces, nostrique orbis venatlbus aptos ; 



and pursuing the subject in the departments of breeding, feeding. 



