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The Tumbler, lefs than the hound, fcraggy, and had pricked ears, 

 feems to anfwcr to the lurcher. This took its prey by mere cunning. 



The Land-Spaniel (probably named from Spain, where it m.ight ac- 

 quire the foftnefs of its hairj is well known. There are two varieties j 

 the Starter, ufed in hawking to fpring game, and the Setter, that 

 crouches down when it fcents the birds, till the net be drawn over them, 

 an amufement known only in England. 



The Water-Spaniel was another fpccies ufed in fowling. 



The Shepherd's Dcg has been mentioned, and the MaftifF is too 

 common to require defcription. 



The Bull-Dog, Mr. Buffon fuppofes, is bred between the fmall Dane 

 and the Englifh maRiff. The large Dane is the tailed dog generally- 

 bred in England. 



Of thofe of the foreign kinds, the Lion Dog greatly refembles that 

 animal, in miniature. The hair on the fore part of the body is ex- 

 tremely Jong ; on the hinder part Ihort. The nofe is fnort, the tail 

 long and tufted. In thefe particulars entirely like the lion. It comes 

 originally from Malta, where it is fo fmall, that women carry it about in 

 their fleeves. 



That falfcly called the Turkifh Dog, differs in being entirely without 

 hair. The fkin is of a flelh colour, with brown fpots, and their figure 

 at firft view rather difgufting. They are extremely chilly, unable to 

 endure our climate, and in the midft of fumm.cr always Ihivering; in 

 winter their fpots entirely difappear. 



The Great Irilh Woif-Dog may be confidercd as the firfl: of the fpe- 

 cies in re&'rd to fize, being fomecimes four feet high, or as tall as a calf 

 of a year old ; made like a greyhound, but rather more robull. 



In China are dog-butchers, and fhambies appointed for felling their 

 flcfh. In Canton particularly; and wherever a dog-butcher appears, all 

 the dogs of the place follow him in full cry, and perfccutc him as far 

 as they are able. 



The dog, when whelped, is not complete, the eyes being clofed by a 

 kind of thin membrane, which is torn as foon as the upper eye-lid be- 

 com.es ftiong enough to raife it, which in general requires ten or twelve 

 days. During that tim.e, the bones of the fcull are not completed, the 

 body is puffed up, and the nofe fhort. In lefs than a month the puppy 

 begins to v.ih its fenfes, and makes hafty advances. At the fourth 

 month the dog lofes fome of his teeth, which are renewed by fuch as 

 never fall. Thefe am.cunt to forty-two. The teeth of the dog being his 



great 



