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colour of houiicls/ and its little importance to their merits, he ob- 

 serves that the hair, whether the dog be of the rough or smooth sort, 

 should be fine, close, and soft : — ^by which I understand that, though 

 the dog be what is termed wire-haired, the hair must not be coarse of 

 texture, nor loose and shaggy. And from these sources we may 

 derive the existing races of England, Scotland, and Ireland, without 

 any necessary commixture with other blood, to account for the wire- 

 haired skin. But the extraordinary sagacity of nose, superinduced 

 on swiftness of foot, in certain varieties of modern Celtic hounds 

 with rough coats, favours the notion of BufFon and others, that a 

 cross has taken place with some alien, sagacious breed, at a remote 

 period. Be this, however, as it may, we will consider the coarse- 

 haired and more powerful varieties of Arrian's Celt, the representa- 

 tives of the wolf-hounds of Ireland and Scotland ; -' and the fabulous 

 Lailaps, " the goodly grewnd" of Golding, presented by Dian to 

 Procris, 



quem cum sua traderet illi 

 Cynthia, currendo superabit, dixerat, omnes, — 



a poetical picture of an individual, whose counterpart the author had 

 seen, or heard of, in Celtic Gaul, or some Celtic colony, and whose 

 eagerness in the wolf or fox chase is fully supported by his high- 

 mettled descendants; 



Jaradudura vincula pugnat 

 Exuere ipse sibi, colloque morantia tendit. 

 Vix bene missus erat ; nee jam poteramus, ubi esset. 



Ovid. Mefam. 

 L. VII. 754. 



Ejusdem 

 vs. 772. 



1. There are some curious remarks on the colour of huuting-dogs " fit for to 

 coarse withall," in chasing of the stag, in The Countrie Farme, B. vii. c. 22. p. 837. 

 edit. IGOO, — the reference to which is omitted in my annotations on Arrian. 



2. Under the title of le levrier d'attache, the French Encyclopedia unites the Irish 



and Scotch varieties. " C'eit le plus rohuste et le plus courageux des levriers ; en Encvclop6die 

 Scythie on I'emploie ii garder le betail, qui n'est jamais enferrae. On en trouve en Methodique : 

 Ecosse, en Irlande, en Tartaric, et chez presque tons les peuples du Nord : il pour- „„„ 



suit le loup, le sanglier, quelquefois nieme le bufl3e et le taureau sauvage." The 

 common English greyhound is le levrier de plaine of France. The former sorts are 

 the LycisccE of Savary, 



Enormesque, animis pedis et levitate Lydscee 

 Pra'Stantes, apris certare lupisque paratae, &c. 



Venatio 

 Lupifba. 



