Natural Hiftory of the Ancients. 43 



not yet made the acquaintance of this " breviary 

 of Englifhe dogges," as the author terms it. His 

 defign is to " exprefTe and declare in due order, the 

 grand and generall kinde of Englifh Dogges, the 

 difference of them, the ufe, the propertyes, and 

 the diverfe natures of the fame." The treatife is 

 efpecially valuable for giving us the chief kinds 

 of dogs then known in England (from which the 

 pointer, it will be noticed, is abfent) ; but there 

 are many quaint remarks and fmgular opinions 

 alfo comprifed in it. Firft of all, Caius makes 

 three great divifions of the Englifh dog : 



" A gentle kind, ferving the game, [i.e. a well- 

 bred kind]. 



A homely kind, apt for fundry necefTary ufes. 

 A currime kind, meete for many toyes." 



Thefe are fubjected to fundry more careful 

 divifions ; and, finally, the firft clafs is fubdivided 

 into dogs for the chafe and dogs ufeful in fowl- 

 ing, under which heads the animals themfelves are 

 one by one particularly described. 



Of dogs ufeful in the chafe, Caius enumerates 

 " Hariers, Terrars, Bloudhounds, Gafehounds, 

 Grehounds, Leviners or Lyemmers, Tumblers, 

 Stealers." The harrier is our modern hound; 

 and, if the author's clarification of its duties may 

 be trufted, was put in his day to very mifcellaneous 

 ufes. It has " bagging lips, and hanging eares, 

 reachyng downe both fydes of their chappes," and 

 was ufeful to hunt " the hare, foxe, wolfe, harte, 

 bucke, badger, otter, polcat, lobfter (! !), weafell, 





