1809. ] 
conclusion of the former listory concern- 
ing the same kinge.” 
‘Mr. Pennant conjectures that the tum- 
bler of Dr, Caius answered to the modern 
Jurcher; but has no conjecture for the 
gazehound. ‘The leviner, lyemmer, 
he supposes, was the same with what 1s 
now called the Irish greyhound, 
Our author Caius, Kaye or Keye (for 
such was the English of his name) appears 
in his time to have united the first ho- 
nours of literature with those of medi- 
cine. He was born at Norwich in 1510; 
studied, first at Gonville-hall, in Cam- 
bridge ; and afterwards became one of 
the pupils of the celebrated Johannes 
Montanus, at Padua: where, in 1542, 
he gave public lectures on the Greek text 
of Aristotle. 
His labours in editing correct editions 
of Galen and Celsus, gave him a deserved 
celebrity in his own country, which re- 
moved him very early from the practice 
ofa provincial town to the first physician 
at court, in which capacity he served 
king E dward VI. and the ett Mary 
and Elizabeth. 
The service which he rendered to the 
College of Physicians, in which he suc- 
ceeded Linacre as president, his general 
patronage of learning, and the munificent 
protection which he afforded in particu- 
far to the house of his education at Cain- 
bridge, are all subjects of appropriate 
panegyric. Fuller says, he bequeathed 
a medicinal genius to his callege. — Elis 
works are extremely numerous: among 
which the most interesting to his coun- 
trymen, besides the treatise De Canibus, 
(which ‘first appeared in 1570,) are pro- 
bably his ¢ Councell against the Disease 
called the Sweat,” Bvo. 1550. and the 
sat editions of his “ Historia Cantabri- | 
Sensis Academix,” 4to, 1568 and 1574. 
He died July 29, 15733 and has only this 
inscription, in Caius-C ollege Chapel, ou 
his tomb—“ Fur CAIUS.’ 
Another work deserving the atten- 
tion of the .antiquary who may turn 
bis thoughts to rural sports, will be 
found in 
*¢ A Short Treatise of Hunting: 
pyled forthe Delight of Noblemen 
com- 
and 
Gentlemen, by Sir ‘Thomas Cockaine, 
knight. Lond, 1591.” ato. 
A treatise, more the work of.a hunter 
than of a professed writer. It is. short, 
and has Fle variety for the general 
reader. 
“*“ diowe to hunt the etter,” as prac- 
fised in the reign of qu¢ea Elyabeth, is 
The Antiquary.—No. X¥ I. 
3k 
” 
perhaps one of the best specimens that 
can be selected from it. 
“ Your huntsman early in the morning 
before he bring foorth your houndes, 
must goe to the Water, a and seeke for the 
hew swaging of an otter, and in the mud 
or grauecil finde out the sealing of his 
foote, so shall he perceiue perfectly whe- 
ther Hid goe vp the water or downe: 
which done, you must take your hounds 
to the plate where he lodged the night 
before; and cast your traylers off upon 
the trayle you thinke best; keeping your 
whelps still in the couples: for so they 
must be entred: 
* Then must there be on either side 
of the water two men with otter speares 
to strike him, if it bee. a great water: 
but if it be a small water you must for- 
bear to strike him, for the vee inaking 
of your houndes. 
‘‘ The otter is chiefly to be hunted 
with slow houndes, great mouthed, whick 
to a young man is A very earnest sporte 
he will vent so ofte and put up ouer was 
ter, at which time the houndes will spend 
their. mouthes verie lustely: thus may 
youhave good sport at an otter two or 
three houres if you list, 
‘An otter sometimes wil be tr ayled a 
mile or two before he come to the holt 
where he lyeth, and the earnestnes of 
the sporte beginneth not till he bee 
found, at which time some mustrunne up 
the water, some downe, to see where be 
vents, and to pursue him with great ear- 
nestnes till he be kild. But the best hunt- 
ing of him is in a great water when the 
banke ts full, for then he cannot haue se 
great succour in his holes, as when it 1s 
at’ an ebbe: and he maketh the best 
sporte In a moon-shine night, for then he 
will runne much over the land, and not 
keepe the water as he will in the day.” 
The work concludes with “ Sir Trise 
tram’s Measures ef Blowyng:” the music 
of the horn being deemed at that period 
an indispensible qualification for a ** com- 
pleat gentleman.” ¥. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
LTHOUGH I despair of beinz ever 
able to form a rational theory which 
shall aecount for all or the greater part 
of the meteorological phenomena to which 
we are witnesses, yet, I shall, according 
to your usual plan, give a summary of 
facts which occurred to observation dur- 
ing the Jast- year: -hoping that from this 
and other accounts on the subject, som2 
ons 
