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gundy (1425--1440), of Charles the Bold, his son, 

 a book bearing the title of Le roi Modus ; a third, 

 of the Emperor Maximilian of Austria; and a 

 fourth, once the property of Charles V., all in the 

 library of the Dukes of Burgundy, at Brussels, we 

 find boar-hunts, where well executed dogs represent 

 stag-hounds with ample ears, but with nearly the 

 whole fur of a rusty-red coloiir, and only a few 

 are white, with two or three large spots of an ashy- 

 grey ; they greatly resemble a breed of Saint Ber- 

 nard Alpine dogs, still preserved. The Blood- 

 hounds, or Limers, are quite white. 



Fox-hounds, or hounds trained to fox-hunting, 

 were first formed by the order of Louis XIII. ; Avho, 

 being fond of that sport, and impatient of the mode 

 then in use, which consisted in sending turnspits 

 into the earths, desired, according to M. Robert 

 de SalnoYC, lieutenant of the chase, to have dogs 

 trained to run after unkennelled foxes. 



With regard to the red-haired just mentioned, 

 the race was still kept up, to hunt wolves, so late as 

 the year 1779. 



In the book of the Emperor Maximilian, a stag- 

 hunt exhibits dogs of the same rust colour ; others 

 are white, with the back, head, and ears black, or 

 black Avith some rufous. The Limers are rusty- 

 bro^vn and yellowish-grey. The coursing-dogs are 

 pure white ; but in all the hunting scenes of the 

 above MSS. other dogs are intermixed with the 

 packs ; and the black Saint Hubert's can be dis- 

 tinguished, though no longer prominent, as they 



