Clafs I.] 
QUADRUPEDS. 
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the felon. The bloodhound was in great re- 
queft on the confines of England and Scotland ; 
where the borderers were continually preying 
on the herds and flocks of their neighbors. 
The next divifion of this fpecies of dogs, 
comprehends thofe that hunt by the eye; and 
whofe fuccefs depends either upon the quick- 
nefs of their fight, their fwiftnefs, or their 
fubtility. 
The Agafceus , or Gazehound, was the firft: 
it chaced indifferently the fox, hare* or buck. 
It would fele£t from the herd the fatteft and 
faireft deer j purfue it by the eye ; and if loft 
for a time, recover it again by its lingular di- 
ftinguifhing faculty; and fhould the bead re¬ 
join the herd, this dog would fix unerringly on 
the fame. This fpecies is now loft, or at left 
unknown to us. 
It muft be obierved that the Agafteus of 
Dr. Cains, is a very different fpecies from 
the Agajfeus of Oppian ; which he defcribes 
as being a fmall kind of dog, peculiar to 
Great-Britain ; and then goes on with thefe 
words $ 
rvgovja.<rugKOTUTGV XacrioTfixov, o[4[Acc.<ri vojQsg* 
Curvum j macilentum , hispidum oculis pigrum. 
what he adds afterwards, ftill marks the diffe¬ 
rence more ftrongly , 
p/j/ecnS ocZts pccXifoc, 'srcc/e^oKo; eqlv <zyoc<T(nvq 
Naribus autem longe prceftantijftitnus eft agajfeus. 
From Oppian"s whole defcription, it is plain 
he meant our Beagle.f 
The next kind is the Leporarius , or Gre- 
hound. Dr. Cams informs us, that it takes 
f Opp. Cyneg. lib. i Jin. 473. 4 7 6 - Nemefianus alfo celebrates 
oui dog , divifa Britannia mittit. 
Veloces, noftrique orbis venantibus aptos 
its name quodpracipui gradus fit inter canes ; 
the firft in rank among dogs ; that it was 
formerly efteemed fo, appears from the foreft 
laws of king Canute j who enacfted, that no 
one under the degree of a gentleman fhould 
prefume to keep a gre-hound j and ftill more 
ftrongly from an old IVeljh faying j JVrth ei 
Walch, ei Farch , a"i Filgi , yr adwaenir Bon - 
heddig: Which fignifies, that you may 
know a gentleman by his_hawk,his horfe and 
gre-hound k 
% 
Froijfart relates a fa (ft not much to the 
credit of the fidelity of this fpecies : when that 
unhappy Prince Richard the fecond was taken 
in Flint caftle, his favorite gre-hound imme- 
diately deferted him, and fawned on his rival 
Bolingbroke 5 as if he underftood, and forefaw 
the misfortunes of the former.* 
The third fpecies is the Levinarius , or Lo- 
rarius ; the Leviner or Lyemmer : the firft 
name is derived from the lightnefs of the 
kind j the other from the old word Lyemme , 
a thong: this fpecies being ufed to be led in 
a thong, and flipped at the game. Our au¬ 
thor fays, that this dog was a kind that hunt¬ 
ed 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 
Irijh gre-hound. 
The Vertagus , or Tumbler, is a fourth fpe¬ 
cies j which toke its prey by meer fubtility, 
depending neither on the fagacity of its nofe, 
nor its fwiftnefs: if it came into a warren, it 
neither barked, or ran on the rabbets ; but by 
a feeming negle& of them, or attention to 
fome- 
* Froiffart. Lib. 4. 
