3 i2 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



from being equal to them. They moftly feize their anta- 

 gonifts by the back, and {hake them to death, which, 

 their great fize generally enables them to do with eafe. 

 M. Buffon fuppofes the Great Danijh Dog to be only a 



variety of the Irifti Greyhound. -Next to this, in fize 



and ftrength, is 



The Scottish Highland GREYHOUND, 

 or WOLF-DOG, 



which was formerly ufed by the chieftains of that coun- 

 try in their grand hunting parties One of them, which 



we faw fome years ago, was a large, powerful, fierce- 

 looking Dog ; its ears were pendulous, and its eyes half 

 hid in the hair ; its body was ftrong and mufcular, and 

 covered with harm, wiry, reddifh hair, mixed with white. 



The GAZEHOUND 



was fomewhat fimilar to the Greyhound ; and, like that 

 animal, it hunted only by the eye. It was formerly in 

 great repute, but is now unknown to us. It was ufed in 

 hunting either the Fox, the Hare, or the Stag. It would 

 fele£t, from the reft the fatteft Deer, purfue it by the eye, 

 and, though it mould rejoin the herd, would infallibly fix 

 upon the fame, and purfue it till taken. 



The LYEMMER, 



fo called from its being led in a thong, and flipped at 

 the game. — Dr Caius informs us, that it hunted both by 

 the fcent and fight ; and, in its form, was between the 

 Hound and the Greyhound — It is now unknown to us. 



