122 on varieties of domestic animals. Sept. 25. 
same litter, although the bitch thould have been 
«‘ covered with only one kind of dog.”’- I ask 
the reader, if ever he knew asingle instance where 
this happened ? 
‘© The hound, (he farther observes), if transport- 
“« ed into Spain or Barbary, where the hair of all 
‘* animals becomes soft and long, will be converted 
«¢ into the land and water spaniel ;— and when these 
‘* are again brought back to Britain,” instead of re- 
turning to their former state of a hound, ‘* they be- 
“‘ come tne small fhagged dog.” But who does 
not know, that spaniels continue to be bred in Bri- 
tain for ages without degenerating in the smallest de- 
gree? ' 
We have seen above, that the mastiff, bull-dog, 
beagle, and hound, to which may be added the terri- 
er and small setting-dog, are all produced in Britain 
trom the fhepherd’s dog transported from cold cli- 
mates ** But this mastiff dog, (he observes), 
* when carried to the north,” deserts his original fa- 
mily, and ‘* becomes the large Danifh dog ;—and 
‘+ when transported to the south, becomes a grey- 
‘* hound. The same transported into Ireland, the 
‘* Ukrain, Tartary, Epirus, and Albania, becomes 
the great wolf-dog, known by the name of the 
‘* Irifh dog, which is the largest of all dogs.” 
Taus he makes the fhepherd’s dog, when transport- 
ed from the north to Britain, become a mastiff ; and 
that again, when remanded back to the north, instead 
of returning to its original state of a fhepherd’s dog, 
becomes a large Danilh dog ;—which again brought 
back to Britain, its original country, instead of a 
