GG DIVISION I. VEKTECKAL AXBIALS. — CLASS I. JIAMMALIA. 



of Ferdinand, lung of Castile, i;j30 ; after which they bccunic gradually 

 liinre coniniDn. 



Hence we nia\-, perhaps, eoncliidc, Circyhoiinds with erect cars, being 

 iKiinted in (he eataconilis nf the kings of Thebes, in Egy[)t, above three 

 thiiusand years ago, and sculptured in Greece, with them half deflected, 

 not earlier than the era of Pericles, that tliesc animals, the oldest race 

 ti'aincd for luuiling, Avere marked \\ith the sign of domesticity about his 

 jieriod, or near one tliousand years after the date of the first known pictures, 

 or (hat the Egyptian were distinct from those of iMiropc. 



Again, we may infi'r, either that llnunds and Ih-ciad-montiicd dogs with 

 pendulnus ears, not being known till the era of Alexander, and continuing 

 scarce to a c(ini]iarati\ely late period, belong to a distinct origin, and were 

 reduced tn domesticity at a subsequent time, or were reclaimed in a region 

 ■\ei'y remote from the then existing seat of civilization. Finallv, that with 

 them also the pendulous mark of domestication was a gradual result eti'ected 

 Somewhat later. 



Yet the single exceiition we ha^•G noti<'ed is sufficient to establish the fact, 

 that dogs wiih pendulous ears existed at a very remote period, for the 

 figure is found in the scenes relating to the chase published by Cailland, 

 and taken, we belie\e, fVom the catacombs ()f the kings of Thebes. In 

 this instance, it is not a Cireylioniiil, i>ut a Lyemer, or dog led by a leash, 

 slender-bodied, high on the legs, with a truncated tail carried high, and 

 even marked on the ilank like a modern hound of the rusty gray breed of 

 the East.' The huntci', holding a bow in its case, leads the dog by a slip 

 rojJC, as was done formerly in Europe with the brachet. This figure we 

 are inclined to regard as representing the Elymean Dog, perhajis first in- 

 troduce(l into Egvpt by the shepherd conquerors, or brouglit home by 

 iSesostris al'(cr bis Asiatic expedition to the Oxus. 



Although there is little doubt that the Braquc of the French, and its 

 diininuti\e Iiraclu't of the Scots, is also the Brae, or Breac, of the British 

 (A'lts, it may lie questioned whether that race was the same we now call 

 the Mound and Beagle. Mr. Pennant thinks the Beagle is deseril)ed by 

 Oppian nnder (he name of Agasseiis ; but wc take "Crooked, slender, 

 rngLied, and i'ull-eyed" to be, as well as what i'olli_)WS concerning the 

 powers of scent, more applicable, on the whole, to a native Terrier, — the 

 ■word being ("eltic, and designating a spotted species, as it would appear, 

 of tliree colors. Tlierc is a singular coincidence in the oldest Cingalese 

 tales, of the Ceylonese Buddhists, wdio narrate a mythus respecting their first 

 arrival, wdierein a dog of three colors jjerforms a conspicuous jiart ; and, 

 in (lie romance of Sir Tristrem and the Bele Ysonde, where another three- 

 eolored dog, evidently typifying some druidical sect, is equally prominent. 



