Crass I. DeOwGs 
The firft variety is the Zerrarius or Terier, 
which takes its name from its fubterraneous em- 
ploy ; being a {mall kind of hound, ufed to force 
the fox, or other beafts of prey, out of their holes ; 
(and in former times) rabbets out of their burrows 
into nets. | 
The Leverarius, or Harrier, is a fpecies well 
known at prefent; it derives its name from its ule, 
that of hunting the hare; but under this head may 
_be placed the fox-hound, which is only a ftronger 
and fleeter variety, applied to a different chace*. 
The Sanguinarius, or Bloodbound, or the Sleut- 
hounde+ of the Scots, was a dog of great ufe, and in 
high efteem with our anceitors: its employ was 
to recover any game that had efcaped wounded 
from the hunter; or been killed and ftole out of 
the foreft. It was remarkable for the acutenefs of 
its fmell, tracing the loft beaft by the blood it had 
fpilt; from whence the name is derived: This 
* Prince Griffith ap Conan (who began his reign in the 
year 1079) divided hunting into three kinds: the firft and 
nobleft fort was the Helfa ddolef, which is hunting for the me- 
lody of the cry, or notes of the pack: The fecond fort was 
the Helfa gyfartha, or hunting when the animal ftood at bay : 
The laft kind was the Helfa gyffredin, 1. e. common hunting ; 
which was no more than the right any perfon had, who hap- 
pened accidentally to come in at the death of the game, to 
claim a fhare. Lewzs’s Hift. of Wales, 56. 
+ From the Saxon Slot the impreffion that a deer leaves of 
its foot in the mire, and fund a dog. So they derive their 
name from following the track, 
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