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. ; girth of forearm, 8in. ; length of head from occiput to tip of 

 nose, 9in. ; girth of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 7in. ; 

 girth of neck, IG^in. ; colour, pure slate, with white extremities. 



Mr. H. M. Savage's Lena: Age, 7 months and 1 day; height at 

 shoulder, 26in. ; length from nose to set on of tail, 45jin. ; length of 

 tail, 20in. ; girth of chest, 28in. ; girth of loin, 22iin. ; girth of head, 

 lOin. ; girth of forearm, 9 fin. ; length of head from occiput to tip of 

 nose, 9iin. ; girth of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 7iin. ; 

 girth of neck, 18in. ; colour, pure slate, with white extremities. 



CHAPTER XVI. THE BULLDOGS OF SPAIN AND 

 THE CONTINENT. 



BY FRANK ADCOCK. 



THE dog, of which this slight sketch attempts to treat, is one for which 

 Great Britain has been famous since the advent of the Eomans, who con- 

 veyed large numbers to Italy. Sir Win. Jardine says, "it may be 

 doubted whether there were in Britain two races of broad-mouthed dogs 

 during the Roman era ; it seems to us there was but one, and in that case 

 the bulldog was the animal in question." Claudian, the Latin poet (who 

 died 408), mentions the English bulldog, and distinguishes him from 

 all other dogs, as being able to pull down a bull. Joanes Ulizious 

 unmistakably describes the ancient bulldog in these words, " Occulis ita 

 lippis et detortis, labris et malis adeo sordidis et pene dentibus apparent ; 

 ut advenes mera monstra videantur : at quanto deformiores es fere 

 meliores estimantur." From this period, there is ample evidence of the 

 dissemination of this breed of dogs over the Continent, and this was much 

 assisted by the fact of so important a town as Bordeaux having been in the- 

 hands of the English from the 12th to the 14th Century, and the Court of 

 King Edward, with its attendant English sports of bull and bear baiting, 

 having been held there for about eleven years. In about the year 1556 

 great numbers of English bulldogs were introduced into Spain and the 



