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in his EmbaJJy to Thibet, faw in a row of wooden cages, and defcribes as 

 cc huge dogs, tremendoufly fierce, ftrong, and noify." The following 

 (Plates 2 and 3), drawn from the antique, are more like bloodhounds, 

 while the type of the greyhound is eafily traced to thofe of Plate 4, 

 likewife drawn from an antique ftatue of Acteon, in the Britifh Mufeum. 



The French poodle (Plate 5), copied from a curious engraving in the 

 Print- room of the Britifh Mufeum, by an unknown French matter, is 

 accompanied by the following curious infcription. Above his head, in 

 a fcroll, is : 



IE suis LOYAL BARBET VEILLANT. 



And under him : 



Le fage nous enfeigne, et di ce que f'enfuit. 



Qui veut entrer das la maifon 

 II doit hurter prcmieremet, 



En ouurat dire fa raifon 



Car f'il y entre lourdement 



On crira, Barbet arrefte. 

 Crie, mord-le hardiment, 



Car c'eft comme toy vne befte. 



Dans la maifon entre maints fots 

 Pour y prendre ou crocheter, 



D'autre fen vont voir dans le pot, 

 Qu'il y a pour le rapporter 

 Telz fots ont gaigne le frotter 



Us font bien aifez a cognoitre 



Car font ennemis de mon maiftre. 



Le bon chien domeftique veille, cependant que fon maiftre dort, 



Et f'il vient quelqu'un il reveille, quand par fortune il dort trop fort. 



An early German mafter mows us a pointer and a wolf-hound in 

 Plate 6. 



We do not recommend as models of beauty the two monfters 

 (Plate 7) taken out of the DireBorium Humane Vit<e (1480), but very 

 likely they were drawn from a crofs-breeding between the greyhound 

 and maftiff. Bergman von Holpe, in the firft edition of the Stultifera 



