1809. } 
mind, And perhaps, of all our daily 
repasts, it constitutes the most generally 
and unexceptionably agreeable, from 
which even reading is not excluded, and 
where conversation can be most itself. 
I find, by Professor Martyn’s valuable 
edition of ‘Miller, that Linnzus received 
the true tea-tree from Earl Gustavus 
Ekeberg, October $8, 1765, the captain 
of a Swedish East-Indiaman, who raised 
it from seed during the voyage. Into 
England it was introduced by Mr. Ellis, 
about 1768. It was first treated as a 
stove-plant: and its first flowering in 
this country was in the stove of the 
Duke of Northumberland. Perhaps even 
the coffee-tree may in time be brought 
to endure the green-house, instead of be- 
ing confined to the stove. 
froston-hall, near Bury. 
Dec. 21, 1808. 
P.S. An oil thermometer, which serves 
asa kind of register of great degrees of cold, 
by so slowly recovering its temperature, is now 
only at 172, in the same aspect and upon the 
same scales, \ 
Your’s, &c. 
Care. Lorrr. 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
THE ANTIQUARY.—No. XVI. 
ANALYSIS OF CURIOUS BOOKS. 
NIME has veiled so large a portion of 
e former learning from our view, that 
the recovery of its more valuable frag- 
ments may be deemed a work of almost 
equal importanee with the prosecution 
of new inquiries, 
In this view the attention of the An- 
tiquary has been more than once turned 
to the analysis of curious books, in which 
the history or the manners of former pe- 
riods are illustrated. 
Among those which relate to uel ; 
sports, scarcely any will be found more 
interesting than the work 
‘ORE uglishe Dogges, the Diversities, 
the I Names, the Natures, and the Pro- 
pertics. A short Treatise, written in 
Latine, by Johannes Caius, of late me- 
morie, Doctor of Phissicke in the Uni- 
versitie of Cambridge, and newly drawne 
into Englishe by Abraham Fleming, Stu- 
dent. Imprinted at London by Rycharde 
Jones,” 1576. 4to. 
At the back of the title-page is, 
“A Prosopopoicall Speache of the Booke. 
*© Some tell of starres th? influence straunge, 
Some tell of byrdes which flie in th? ayre, 
Some tell of beastes on land which raunge, 
Some tell of fishe in riuers fayre. 
Some tell of serpentes sundry sortes, » 
Some tell of plantes the full effect, 
Qf Englishe dogges I sound reporces, 
Their names and natures I detect. 
The Antiguary. 
a , ae 7: 
My forhed is but baulde and bare, 
But yet my body’s beuti.ull, 
For pleasaunt flowres in me there arey 
And not so fyne as pleatiiull. 
And though my garden plot so greenc, 
Of dogges receaue the trampling feetey 
Yet is it swept and kept ful cleene, 
So that it yeeldes a sauour sweete. 
AB. FLE.% 
Followed by a Latin dedication, in Flem- 
ine’s name, to Dr. Perne, Heal of Bly. 
“The book itself appears to have been 
written at the express request of Conrad 
Gesner, whose name has-been so long 
and so well known tu readers of natural 
history. 
“ All Englishe dogges,” says Caius, 
“be eyther of a gentle kinde, seruing 
the game 5 aliomely kind, apt for sundry 
necessary uses; or, a currishe kinde, 
meete for many toyes.” The treatise, 
however, is divided urto five sections, in 
which the different sorts of dogs, aceord- 
ing to their employments, are enwme- 
rated. 
The first section contains the Canes 
Venatici, “ which serve the game and 
disport of hunting; comprising, the har- 
rier, the terrar, the bloudhounde, the 
gasehounde, the grehounde, the leuiner, 
or lyemmer, the tumbler, and the stealer.” 
he second section comprises the Ce- 
nes Aucupatlorn, or “gentle dogs, which 
serve the disport of fowling, mcluding 
the land-spaniell, or setter; the water- 
spaniell, or finder; and the fisher.” 
The third section treats only “of the 
delicate, neate, and preity kind of dogses 
called the Spanish gentle, or comforter ;™ 
which appear to have been the lap-dogs 
of the time. 
‘Yhe fourth includes the Canes Rustict, 
or coarser dogs—* the shepherd’s dogee, 
and the mastive, or bandegee; which 
last,” says the atithor; “hath sundsy 
names derined from sundry circumstan~ 
ces, as, the keeper, or watchinan, the 
butcher’ s dogve, the messinger or carrier, 
the moouer, the water- -drawer, the tin- 
ker’s curr, aiid the fencer.”’ 
And the fifth section contains the 
“ curres of the mungrel} and rascal] sort, 
—-the wappe, or warner; the turnespete, 
and the daunser;’ followed by a shore 
conclusion, in which the cross breeds of 
the time are enymerated, viz- 
(The first bred of a? in Latine, 
“Three | bytch anda wolfe, Lyciscus. %4 
sortes of ! he second of a? in Latine,, 
them.  } bytche anda foxe, § Lucena. 
ie ‘he third ofa bear, in Latine, 
and a bandogye, Vreanus.” 
The most curious of Caius’s dese: ‘1p- 
tons 
