3 2o HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



placed on a tree of a moil enormous fize, in the park, (after- 

 wards called the Hart-horn tree) accompanied with this infcrip- 

 tion : — ' 



" Hercules kiJTd Hart o'Greece; 

 " And Hart o'Greece kill'd Hercules." 

 " The horns have been fince removed ; and are now at Ju- 

 lian's Bower, in the fame county." 



The Old English HOUND 



is defcribed by Whitaker, in his Hiftory of Mancheftery 

 as the original breed of this ifland, ufed by the ancient 

 Britons in the chafe of the larger kinds of game, with 

 which their country abounded. 



This valuable Hound is diftinguifhed by its great fize 

 and ftrength. Its body is long, its cheft deep, its ears 

 long and fweeping, and the tone of its voice peculiarly 

 deep and mellow. — From the particular formation of its 



