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 3 3 o ■'* THE. HIS TO Jt Y •., Book £ eitinft in the former and furvitfes only in the latter. . And the great fize atid the prefent fewnefs of this remarkable I race pretty plainly proclaim them to be natives of the iflancj, and to.be the laft perifhing remains of a Britiih breed within it. Once loft in the north, the dog was ftill continued in the fout& y : J ahd~ had' 'there the honour to be delineated by the juft bold pfeaeil.oE a i Shake- fpear. Once loft in the north, the dog was iirft introduced into it again from the fouth, and- bears therefore at Manchefter the expreffive appellation of the Southern Jlound. And being originally carried from Manchefter intp manyof thtt/neighbour- ing diftri&s,. and even into fome of the foutherh counties, it there retains the note of its re-enter defc.erif in its newer appel- lation of the Manchefter or the Lancafliire Hound: But it has. been long neglefted by careleflhefs or by .defignu. The cha- ra&eriftic bulk of the hound has bepn gradually diminiftuag for fome time. And this old and vfenerable breed" is gradually dwindling away into little more than a larger generation of common harriers,' ; ' ' '.;■;• • # Thefe and our wolf*dogs were fome of the- original" hounds of the ifland. And the Romans feem to have introduced into the one and to ha*e added to the other the pre&nt breed of our common harehound's atid the prefent rac6 of our cbmmdn fpaniels. The former are ' pretty certainly' 1 foreigners, as their only game v the hare, cbtrld 1 ftever "have been hunted- by the* primaeval Britons.. And they are moft probably Tufeans. Nemefianus has given us; the following account of the Tufcan-dog : and the defcriptihn. agrees e'xa&ly, I think," with the comtnon harfchotind. I Quin& Tufeorurij hon eftextrema tfoluptas • Saepecanum; fit forma illis licet obfita villa, ' Diflimilefque habearit catulis velbcibus artus,. Haud tamen injucunda dabunt tibi munera prsedSd ;:"• T Namque & odorato nofcunt veftigia prato,- '*' ' Atque etiam leporum fecreta cubilia tnbrift'rdnt v : • » Nor on.the file of hunters laft is found The rnerit, "Tufeans, of your native hound'i. - • What