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THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, ORIGINAL BREED. 

 Canis Terra Nova, H. SMITH. 



PLATE 1IL 



THE breed of these handsome and powerful dogs, 

 now common in Great Britain, is partially crossed 

 with others, and therefore differs somewhat from 

 the original indigenous race of America; and is 

 also, in several respects, unlike the Esquimaux 

 race, being longer in the back, more loosely made, 

 with rather a fuller muzzle, partially drooping ears, 

 and a long, not curly fur The hound seems to 

 have crossed in the breed ; for, even in Newfound- 

 land, there are individuals of such enormous bulk, 

 that not even the Irish greyhound, though higher 

 at the shoulder, is to be compared with it, in length 

 and weight of body. We know of one that, when 

 desired to show himself, would immediately stand 

 up, and place his fore-feet against the lintel of any 

 room-door. But these very large dogs are, in ge- 

 neral, of a white colour, spotted with black. In 

 our north-eastern colonies of America, those that 

 were considered to be of the original stock were 

 smaller than the large breed now in England ; the 



