Clafs I. ] .QUA 
They are taken either in traps, or by {hoot¬ 
ing : in the latter cafe it is very dangerous, 
only to wound them ; for if they are, will 
attack the perfon who injured them, and have 
ftrength enough to be no defpicable enemy. 
Wild cats were formerly reckoned among the 
R U P E D S. 
beafts of chace; as appears by a charter of 
Richard the fecond, to the abbot of Peter¬ 
borough , giving him leave to hunt the hare, 
fox, and wild cat: and in much earlier times 
it was alfo the object of the fportlman’s di- 
verfion. 
Felemque minacem. 
Arboris in trunco longis prasfigere telis 
Nemejiani Cynegeticon L. 55. 
GENUS VIII. The DOG. 
SPECIES I..The DOG. 
Rail Jyn. quad. 175. 
Charlton ex. 26. 
Merret pinax. 168. 
Gefner quad. 160, 249, 250. 
Canis domefticus. BriJJon quad. 
2 35 * 
Britijh , Ci, f<em. Gaft 
French , Chien 
Italian , Cane 
Spanifh, Perro j 
D R. Caius, an Englijh phylician, who 
flouriftied in the reign of queen Eliza¬ 
beth , has left among feveral other tra£ts re¬ 
lating to natural hiftory, one wrote exprefsly 
on the fpecies of Britijh dogs: they were 
wrote for the ufe of his learned friend Gefner ; 
with whom he kept a ftri£t correfpondence 9 
and whofe death he laments in a very elegant 
and pathetic manner 
Buffon. Tom. 5. p. 185. 
Klein quad. 63. 
Canis familiaris. Lin. fyft ■ 39* 
Canis cauda recurva. Faun fuec. 
12 . 
" Portug. Cam 
German , Hund 
\ 
Dutch, Hont 
- Swedifh , Hund 
Befides a brief account of the variety of 
dogs then exifting in this country, he has ad- 
ed a fyftematic table of them : his method is 
fo judicious, that we fhall make ufe of the 
fame ; explain it by a brief account of each 
kind ; and point out thofe that are no lono-er 
in ule among us. 
The 
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