Crass I. D UG. 
The variety called the Highland gre-hound, and 
now become very fearce, is of a very great fize, 
ftrong, deep chefted, and covered with long and 
rough hair. This kind was much efteemed in 
former days, and ufed in great numbers by the pow- 
erfull chieftainsin their magnificent hunting matches. 
It had as fagacious noftrils as the Blood-bound, and 
was as fierce. This feems to be the kind Boethzus 
ftyles, genus venaticum cum celerrimum tum audaciffi- 
mum: nec modo in feras, fed in hoftes etiam latronef- 
que; prefertim fi dominum ductoremve injuriam affict 
cernat aut in eos concitetur. 
The third fpecies is the Levinarius, or ee 5 
The Leviner or Lyemmer: the firft name is deriv- 
ed from the lichtnefs of the kind; the other from 
the old word Lyemme, athong: this fpecies being 
ufed to be led ina thong, and flipped at the game. 
Our author fays, that this dog was a kind that 
hunted both by fcent and fight; and in the form 
of its body obferved a medium between the hound, 
and the gre-hound. This probably is the kind 
now known to us by the name of the Irih ere- 
hound, a dog now extremely {carce in that king- 
dom, the late king of Poland having procured 
from them as many as poffible. I have feen two 
or three in the whole ifland: they were of the kind 
called by M4: de Buffon Le grand Danois, and pro- 
bably imported there by the Danes who long pof- 
fefied that kingdom. Their ufe feems originally 
to have been for the chafe of wolves with which 
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