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Sir Charles Stewart Menteath, Bart., of Closeburn, 

 Dumfriesshire, had an extremely small and beautifullj 

 formed pointer. His length, from the point of the nose to 

 the tip of the tail, was only two feet and half an inch. From 

 one fore-foot to the other, across the shoulders, two feet ; 

 length of the head, six inches ; girth of the chest, one foot 

 three inches. He was a most perfect miniature of the best 

 formed English pointer. His colour was white, with dark 

 liver-coloured patches on each side of the head, extending 

 half-way down the neck ; the ears, with some patches down 

 the back, were also of the same colour ; and numerous dark 

 liver-coloured spots sprinkled his entire body. His olfactory 

 sense exhibited itself in a high degree. 



The late Earl of Lauderdale had some of the same dogs, 

 which were broke in and pointed most admirably. Sir 

 James Colquhoun, Bart., of Luss, had one of the same kind, 

 which was considerably smaller than Sir C. Menteath*s. 



THE ENGLISH SETTER. 



This celebrated breed was produced between the Spanish 

 pointer, the English water-spaniel, and springer, which, by 

 careful and assiduous cultivation, has attained a very high 

 degree of perfection as a sporting dog. His figure is elegant, 

 and his fur presents a very pleasing diversity of colour, with 

 beautifully flowing hair, extremely villous on the lower mar- 

 gin of the tail, and in the middle of the belly. 



The setter possesses all the high qualities of the 

 pointer, with a greater degree of speed and natural vivacity 

 of temper ; he, however, is not so easily broken-in as the 

 pointer, and requires a certain degree of training every 

 season to make him continue stanch. There have been, 

 however, various instances of setters being self-taught. 



The setter ranges with great speed, and is a very hardy 



