40 . DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
hares, in the most poaching way, as regarded from our point of 
view, coursing in English style not being carried on there, and 
also for aiding in killing the wolf. These, dogs we should here. 
regard as lurchers, but on the Continent they are called’ mdtins. 
It is admitted to be a very old breed, and is considered by 
F. Cuvier to be the originator of the greyhound and, the deer- 
hound, but without affording the slightest proof. Pennant, on 
the contrary, regards it as a modern breed descended from, the 
Trish wolf-dog. x 
VI.—THE INDIAN HARE-DOG. ‘ 
This variety of the coursing division of dogs is thicker in shape 
than any of the others, and probably therefore not. so fast, though 
from the quantity of hair covering the body it may be more, grey- 
hound-like when stripped ‘than at first sight appears to be the 
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The Indian Hare-Dog (Youatt). ' 
case. It is rarely found in the present day in a state of purity, 
and I believe no specimen has been imported’ into England for the 
last forty years. Its height is about that of the English grey- 
hound, and in shape. it.closely. resembles the collie, except ‘in the 
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