Note 340 — CANES VENATICI. Class I.

The high antiquity of the Canes Venatici of Gaul, espoused by Jaques du Fouilloux in the first chapter of his Vénerie—“De la race et antiquité des chiens courans, et qui premièrement les amena en France,” will amuse such of my readers as may think his work worth referring to. Deducing the breed from the kennel of Brutus,La Vénerie de Jaques du Fouilloux. c. i. (the son of Sylvius, the son of Ascanius, the son of Æneas) under whose fostering care les chiens courans et lévriers were exported from the Trojan territory, Fouilloux exhibits the very vessel of transportation, with its canine cargo aboard.