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The genuine Celtic greylioinul, siicli as ho is represented on the 

 Arch of Constantine, is the " Canis venaticus (iniius sen Grviecus" 



assisted in extirpating the wolf from the sylvan fastnesses of our islands, was Iiereto- 



fore of far greater size than the writer's &^l>riv Kvtuv ry a\ri6ii(} yivvalos—oi whom he De Venatione 



might farther say in the words of Ovid, c. xxxii. 



non dicere posses 

 Laudc pedum forma?ne bono prasstantior esset. 



Ovid. Metam. 

 L. X. 562. 



Animal. 



Indeed jMr. Ray's definition of the C&nis Grains Hibernicus makes him of the greatest 



size of the whole canine race ; " Canis omnium quos hacteniis vidimus mnximus, Raii Synopsis 



INIolossum ipsum magnitudine superans — quod ad formam corporis et mores attinet, 



cani Grasco vulgari per omnia similis. Horum usus est ad lupos capiendos." 



If the reader be interested in the arcana of wolf-catching, he will find illustrations, 

 and anecdotes thereof, in Oppian. Cyneg. iv. vs. 212. — in the Venationes Ferarum of 

 Strada and Galle (pi. 49.) — Lupos Venandi Ratio of J, A. Lonicer — La Chasse du 

 Loup of Jean de Glamorgan — iilagstci' of (Same, c. vii. fo. 40. — Turbervile's Art 

 of Venerie, p. 208. — Venationis Lupinae Leges of Savary, &c. The latter author 

 turns out his whole kennel and armoury for the annihilation of this " fera bellua " — 

 even the anathematized Uvrier is now admitted : 



Non hanc, quae lepori, nee qua indulgentia cervo 

 Debetur, meruere lupi : fera bellua nullo 

 Non stemenda modo : non illam sexus et JEtas, 

 Nullaque tempestas violento a funere servet. 

 Non hic Spartani canis interdicitur usu ; 

 Lina placent, catapultajuvat, venabula, cippus, 

 Decipulae, fovete, atque podostraba, pardalianclies, 

 Et concurrentis vaga vociferatio plebis. 



Derived from the Irish greyhound, and not very far removed from the original 

 stock, was the gazehound of past days : 



Seest thou the gazehound, how with glance severe 

 From the close herd he marks the destined deer ; 

 How every nerve the greyhound's stretch displays, 

 The hare preventing in her airy maze, &c. 



By Dr. Cains, he is supposed to he faithfully portrayed in the following extract : 

 " Quod visu lacessit, nare nihil agit, sed oculo : oculo vulpem leporemque persequi- 

 tur, oculo seligit medio de grege feram, et earn non nisi bene saginatam et opimam : 

 oculo insequitur : oculo perditara requirit : oculo, si quando in gregem redeat, secer- 

 nit, csEteris relictis omnibus, secretamque cursu denuo fatigat ad mortem. Agasceum 

 nostri abs re quod intento sit in feram oculo, vocant," &c. To this portrait I can 

 assimilate no dog at present known in this country, (though, it is probable, such 



Jac. Savary 

 Venatio 

 Lupina. 



Tickell's 

 Miscellanies. 



De Canibus 

 Brit. Libel. 



