. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. y were embalmed. The mummies of some of them are still found,and are mostly, Sir J. G. Wilkinson says, those of the fox-dog; meaning, we presume, thegreyhound which forms fig. 3 of the cut at ccclxvi. This fox-dog, and the hound (c) areof the most frequent occurrence on the monuments, and the author just named thinks itreasonable to conclude that theformer (the fox-dog) was theparent stock of the modern redwild dog of Egypt, which is socommon at Cairo and othertowns of the lower represented in fig. b wasa f
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. y were embalmed. The mummies of some of them are still found,and are mostly, Sir J. G. Wilkinson says, those of the fox-dog; meaning, we presume, thegreyhound which forms fig. 3 of the cut at ccclxvi. This fox-dog, and the hound (c) areof the most frequent occurrence on the monuments, and the author just named thinks itreasonable to conclude that theformer (the fox-dog) was theparent stock of the modern redwild dog of Egypt, which is socommon at Cairo and othertowns of the lower represented in fig. b wasa favourite domestic dog, andappears to have been the onewhich was the most frequentlyadmitted by the Egyptians intotheir parlours, or selected asthe companion of their was also a short-leggeddog (rf), not unlike our turn-spit, which, comparatively uglyas it is, appears to have beenat one period a favourite in thehouse, e, we take to have beena watch and street dog. A dognot unlike it was the Roman house-dog, as shown by the an- [Roman House-dog. From Pompeii.]. o O O O o o Mo <^ ccclx PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VIII. nexed engraving after a mosaic at Pompeii; and we may infer that the most common dog ofPalestine was of this sort, from the allusion made by Solomon to the crooked or curled remainder are hunting-dogs, and bring us back to the class now under our notice. Thehound (c) and greyhound (a) are unequivocally hunting-dogs; and the other (/) we infer tobe such from seeing it sometimes in attendance on the huntsman. The Hound in that cut deserves much attention. The likeness is given with spirit and characteras those of animals usually are by the Egyptians. Col. Hamilton Smith, in his instructive workon dogs, considers it obvious that all breeds of hounds with round and long drooping ears, areoriginally descended from one race, if not from a distinct species of dog allied to the Lycaon,and derived from the East. He regards the pendulous ear
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