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long : finally, the Poe dog of the South Sea Islands 

 is equally ill-shaped. 



The Burgos is a spaniel turnspit, having a long 

 back, short legs, and a fine long hairy coat. This 

 race is chiefly used in the south of Europe. 



THE POINTER, 

 Canis avicularis, 



IN general aspect, character, and colours, belongs 

 to the race of hounds, more nearly than any other 

 of the shooting or gun dogs, and therefore we place 

 him immediately after them. From the word. 

 Spanish being commonly prefixed to the name, there 

 is reason to believe the race came originally from 

 the Peninsula, and this circumstance agrees with 

 what we have said of the oldest race of the St. 

 Hubert hounds; but as the primitive breed must 

 still be presumed to come from the East, we might 

 perhaps infer that Western Europe, including Bri- 

 tain, owes their introduction to the Phoenician 

 traders who brought them to Spain and to this 

 country at so remote a period, that we regard them 

 here as indigenous.* In their present qualities of 



* There is, in the Egyptian figures published by Caillaud, a 

 dog represented at point ; but the sculpture is injured, and 

 leaves some doubt of the intention. 



