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various breeds, namely hounds, house-dogs, lapdogs, &c, existed; 

 but as Dr. Walther has remarked it is impossible to recognise' 

 the greater number with any certainty. Youatt, however, gives 

 a drawing of a beautiful sculpture of two greyhound puppies 

 from the Villa of Antoninus. On an Assyrian monument, about 

 640 b.c, an enormous mastiff 4 is figured; and according to Sir 

 H. Eawlinson (as I was informed at the British Museum), similar 

 dogs are still imported into this same country. I have looked 

 through the magnificent works of Lepsius and Eosellini, and on 

 the monuments from the fourth to the twelfth dynasties {i.e. 

 from about 3400 B.C. to 2100 B.C.) several varieties of the dog 

 are represented ; most of them are allied to greyhounds ; at 

 the later of these periods a dog resembling a hound is figured, 

 with drooping ears, but with a longer back and more pointed 

 head than in our hounds. There is, also, a turnspit, with short 

 and crooked legs, closely resembling the existing variety; but 

 this kind of monstrosity is so common with various animals, as 

 with the ancon sheep, and even, according to Eengger, with 

 jaguars in Paraguay, that it would be rash to look at the monu- 

 mental animal as the parent of all our turnspits: Colonel 

 Sykes 5 also has described an Indian Pariah dog as presenting 

 the same monstrous character. The most ancient dog repre°- 

 sented on the Egyptian monuments is one of the most singular- 

 it resembles a greyhound, but has long pointed ears and a 

 short curled tail: a closely allied variety still exists in 

 Northern Africa ; for Mr. E. Vernon Harcourt • states that the 

 Arab boar-hound is "an eccentric hieroglyphic animal, such as 

 Uieops once hunted with, somewhat resembling the rough Scotch 

 d^er-hound; their tails are curled tight round on their backs, 



^ST w 817 J fV^°\ SemS ' T ^ es of Ma *kind/ 1854, p. 393, give 



Be trie nr ££ JLv t° .7°^ ^ been Called a ™ betan m ^iff, ^ 

 zig, 1852 s 11^^ h f ^ 1P : Mr " H " A - ° ldfield ' wh0 is f * 



1845, p e T; Q JTlz Dog ' r ith the so - called Thibet mastiff « *** 



byDeBlain^e fh ^t7 1Sgl T V - U ^ '"^ the drawin S s in the 

 Canida,' ^ 0Bte °g»Plnfi, British Museum, informs me that he 



< I have seen drawings of this do- T^f tt T *?**"**• 



fi^thetombofliieWaflw^ IfiV ^^ S ° C "' July 12th ' 



•don, and clay models in the British 6 .'q « • » , 



Museum. Nott and Gliddon, in thS P S m ****** P> 5L 



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