D-0OG: Chasey 
fpecies could, with the utmoft certainty, difcover 
the thief by following his foottteps, let the diftance — 
of his flight: be ever fo great; and through the 
moft fecret and thickeft coverts : nor would it’ 
ceafe its purfuit, till it had taken the felon. They 
were likewife uled by Wallace and Bruce during the’ 
civil wars. The poetical hiftorians of the two he- 
roes, frequently relate very curious paffages on 
this fubject; of the fervice thefe dogs were of to 
their mafters, and-the efcapes they had from thofe of 
the enemy. The bloodhound was in ereat requeft 
on the confines of Exglend and Scotland; where the 
borderers were continually preying on the herds and 
flocks of their neighbors. The true bloodhound 
was large, ftrong, mufcular, broad breafted, of 
a itern countenance, of a deep tan-color, and 
generally marked with a black fpot above each eye. 
The next divifion of this fpecies of dogs, com- 
prehends thofe that hunt by the eye; and whofe fuc- 
cefs depends either upon the quicknefs of their fight, 
their fwiftnefs, or their fubtility. 
The 4gafeus, or Gazehound, was the firft: it 
chaced indifferently the fox, hare, or buck. Ie 
would fele& from the herd the fatteft and faireft 
deer; purfue it by the eye; and if loft for a time, 
recover it again by its fingular diftinguifhing facul- 
ty; and fhould the beaft rejoin the herd, this dog 
would fix unerringly on the fame, This fpecies 
is now loft, or at left unknown to us. 
It muft be obferved that the Aga/eus of Dr. Caius, 
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