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The Doctor then describes other varieties of the Span- 

 iel family as follows: 



That kind of a dog whose service is required in following upon the water, 

 partly through a natural towardness and partly by diligent teaching, is endued 

 with that property. This sort is somewhat big and of a measurable greatness, 

 having long, rough, and curly hair, not obtained by extraordinary trades, but 

 given by nature's appointment; yet, nevertheless, friend Gessner, I have 

 described and set him out in this manner; Pulled and knotted from the shoul- 

 ders to the hindermost legs and to the end of his taile, which I did for use and. 

 custom's cause; that being, as it were, made somewhat bare and naked by 

 shearing of such superfluity of hair, they might achieve more lightness and 



COCKER SPANIEL CHAMPION DOC. 

 Owned by Mr. A. Clinton Wilmerdmg, 163 Broadway, New York City. 



swiftness and be less hindered in swimming, so troublesome and needless a 

 burden being shaken off. This kind of dog is properly called aquaticus, a 

 Water Spaniel, because he frequenteth and hath recourse to the water, where all 

 his game and exercise lieth, whereupon he is likewise named a dog for the 

 duck, because in that quality he is excellent. We use them, also, to bring us 

 our bolts and arrows out of the water, missing our mark whereat we directed 

 our level, which otherwise we should hardly recover; and oftentimes they 

 restore to us our shafts, which we thought never to see, touch, or handle again 

 after they were lost, for which circumstances they are called inquisitors, search 

 ers, and finders. 



Further on, the good Doctor alludes to "the delicate, 

 neat, and pretty kind of dogs called the Spaniel gentle, or 



