THE IRISH GREYHOUND OR WOLF-DOG. 37 
cross with the Great Dane, admittedly used for the purpose of 
mereasing size. Thus Colonel Garnier’s “Hecla” and Mr. Town- 
send’s. “ Lufan of Ivanhoe” are by ‘Cedric the Saxon,” a fine 
fawn-coloured Dane, both very large. bitches; while Mr. Laloe’s 
““M‘Mahon,” an own brother to them, is very little higher or 
heavier. With regard to their claim to be really descended from 
the old Irish wolf-dog, Captain Graham writes me that “the 
late Sir John Power of Kilfane had his breed in 1842, and that 
“The Irish Wolf-hound. 
Mr. Maliony hail the same strain about that'time—that they were 
descended closely-from Hamilton Rowan’s celebrated ‘ Brian,’ which 
he claimed to be the dast of the old Irish wolf-dogs, descended, it 
is believed, from the O’Toole’s dogs of 1815 or so. I knew Sir 
John Power well, and he remembered H. Rowan’s dog, a great, 
rough, dark dog of the massive deerhound character. ‘Of ‘ Kilfane 
Oscar’ I now have a grandson, and there are. one or two more in 
