CHESAPEAKE BAY DOG. 



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ears, tail, and symmetry ; added to which, the cross-bred dog is 

 rery difficult to dry. If any cross would answer, I should say the 

 bloodhound.— J. M'C." 



The portrait on page 118 is from a remarkably good photograph 

 of Mr. Lindoe's celebrated Rake. 





Fig. 22. — CHESAPEAKE BAT DOG. 



CHESAPEAKE BAT DOG. 



The earliest accounts that we have of the above mentioned dog 

 date back to the year 1807, when the ship "Canton," of Balti- 

 more, fell in at sea with an English brig in a sinking condition, 

 bound from Newfoundland to England. The crew were rescued 

 and taken aboard of the " Canton," also two Newfoundland pups, 

 a dog and bitch The English crew were landed at Norfolk, and 

 the two pups purchased from the English captain for a guinea 

 apiece, and taken to Baltimore. The dog pup, called " Sailor," 



