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APPENDIX. 



Scire ; pedum calidus vestigia pulvis liabebat : 

 Ipse oculis ereptus erat. Non ocior illo 

 Hasta, nee excussa; contorto verbere glandes, 

 Nee Gortjniaco calamus levis exit ab arcu, &c. 



Golding's 

 Ovid's Metam. 

 Booke Seventh. 



He struggling for to wrest his necke already from tlie band 

 Did stretch his collar. Scarcely had we let him off from hand, 

 But that where Lselaps was become we could not understand ; 

 The print remained of his feete upon the parched sand, 

 But lie was clearely out of sight. Was never dart I trow. 

 Nor pellet from enforced sling, nor shaft from Creetish bow. 

 That flew more swift then he did run. 



Fleming's 

 British 



Animals. 

 p. 12. 



The modern Scotch greyhound differs from the Irish in many re- 

 spects. i The former is rough and wiry, has a bearded snout, and 

 ears half-pricked ; the latter has short smooth hair and pendent ears; 

 the Scotch is sharp, swift, and sagacious ; the Irish dull-looking, 

 harmless, indolent. The former is still common in North Britain, 

 the latter is become exceedingly rare everywhere. From Mr. Lam- 

 bert's description of a modern specimen, the Irish wolf-greyhound 

 seems to have degenerated much in size.^ 



Historia 



Animalium ex 



Boethio. 



Spencer's 



Beth Gelert, or 



The Grave of 



the Greyhound. 



De Venatione 



1. Gesner has introduced into his Appendix a representation of the " Canis Seo- 

 ticus Venaticus, quem Scoti vocant tnie grewhownd , id est canera Grsecum :" and 

 calls it " genus venaticum cum celerrimum turn audacissiraura : nee modo in feras, 

 sed in hostes etiam latronesque praesertim si dorainum ductoremve injuria aflSci cer- 

 nat, aut in eos concitetur." See " the Complaynt of Bagsche, the Kingis auld 

 hound," by Lyndsay, for a quaint description of some of the qualities of the highland 

 breed. Poor Cilhart, too, the luckless wolf-hound of the precipitate Llewellyn, will 

 furnish an early example of the mountain sort. Nor should the Ossianic Maida — 

 KaAbs fjLiv Sffxas iarlv — by Landseer, be overlooked, as a splendid type of the race on 

 canvass ; though not quite Celtic in his blood. 



A breed of Sagaci-celeres is at present preserved in Scotland, between the English 

 greyhound and Leicestershire fox-hound : the first cross of which is represented to be 

 remarkably handsome, fleet, and courageous. This race is employed for the deer- 

 chase in the forest of Alhol and elsewhere. 



2. The hound described in the Linnean Society's Transactions is stated to have 

 been only Gl inches in length — a size surpassed by an example of the Canis Grains 

 of the purest blood and greatest speed, (" facilis cui plurima palma,") 62 inches 

 long, now in my possession — en yap (loi ?iv, as Arrian says of his much -loved Horme, 

 oTTiJre rama eypa<pov. But it is probable that the beautifully-majestic animal, which 



