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Generated os a Lion.

And these are strong Dogs, and good Hunters. ‘Pollux faith, that Arcadian Dogsfirst came of a Dog and a Lion, and are called Lion-dogs. And Cœlim writes the£»me: and Oppianus commends the Arcadian Dogs, and those of Tegea, which is aTown of Acadia. This is also

A strong and swift Dog, gendred of a kind os Wolf called Ihos ,

which, as Aristotle writes , is in all his entrails like a Wolfs ; and is a strongbeast, swift, and is wont to encounter the Lion. ‘Pliny faith, it is a kind of Wolf*Heschitu faith, it is like a Wolf - Herodotus , that it is gendred in Africa s Solintucalls them Ethiopian Wolves : Nearchus calls these beasts Tygres. and faith there bedivers kinds of them. Wherefore Gratm faith, that dogs generated of these Thoes,are strong, and fit to hunt; and calls them half-savage, as coming of a tame Dog,and a savage kind of Wolf. There is also a

Dog ca!led Crocus a , gendred of a‘Dog and a Wolf.

Pliny faith, that these Dogs break all things with their teeth, and presently devourthem. As the Indians'join Tygres, so do the Gaulcs joinWolvcs and Dogs together;every herd of Wolves there, hath aDogfor their Ring-leader. In theCountryof Cyrcne in Libya, Wolves do couple with Dogs, as Aristotle and Pollux write.Galen in his book concerning the use of Parts, writes, that a Bitch may conceive bya He-wolf, and so the Shc-wolf by a Dog, and retain each others feed, and ripen itto the bringing forth of both kinds. Diodorm faith, that the dog which the Æthiopi-an casts Crocuta, is a compound of the Nature of a Dog and a Wolf. When 7V,-phu* was hunting, one of his dogs eagerly pursued a she-wolf, and overtaking her,began to line her, changing his fiercenesse into lust. Aibertm faith, that the greatDog called a Mastive, is gendred of a Dog and a Wolf. I my self saw at Rome, adog generated of a wolf; and at Napsgs, a she-wolf of a dog. Ovid faith, thatthe dog Nape was conceived of a Wolf;'and Ovid and Virgil both, mention thedogLycil'ca, which, as If odor e writes, are generated of wolves and dogs couplingtogether. Calm calls these dogs Cbaonides ; being gendred ok a kind of wolfcalled Chaos, as some suppose, whence they have that name. But if we would ge-nerate swift dogs, as Grey-hounds, we must join dogs with some swift beasts. As,couple dogs and foxes together, and they will

Gender swift Dogs , called Lacedamoniau Dogs.

Aristotle, and out of him (f alen, report, that beasts may couple together, thoughthey be of a divers kind ; lo that their nature do cot much differ, and they be of alike bigneffe, and thereby finable for their rimes of breeding and bringing forth,as it is betwixt dogs and wolves; of both which, are gendred swift dogs, calledLacedæmonian dogs: the first births are of both kinds ; but in time; after sundryinterchangeable generations, they take after the dam, and follow the kind of thefemale. ‘Pollux faith, These are called Alopecidæ, sox-dogs; as Xenophou alsowrites of them, and makes them to be hinting dogs: and surely the best andswiftest hunting dogs, as Grey-hounds, are long-headed, and (harp-fnouied, asfoxes are. Hefychim and Varirnu call them Dog-foxes. But now, if we would gene-rate a kind of

Swift Dogs,and strong withal,

we must make a medley sundry kinds of dogs together; as a Mastive and a Grey-hound gender a swiften d withal a strong <Jog,as Aristotle writestor else couple a dogwith a wolf, or with a Lion ; for both these mixtions have Huuts-men devised; the

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