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over, those beautiful instincts commonly 

 denominated sense, — than a hound of finer 

 proportion, elegance, and fashion, is to me 

 a most inexplicable problem. The science 

 of physiognomy is an essential study for 

 masters of hounds and huntsmen, to enable 

 them to breed hounds successfully, and 

 having bred them to form their entries. 

 There are unmistakable expressions of 

 countenance which indisputably denote in- 

 tellect, and there are, too, associations of 

 forms corporal, which, in connection with 

 the features of the head and face, operate, 

 so to speak, in unison, to render a fox- 

 hound capable of transmitting his good 

 properties to his descendants. The happy 

 combinations do not exist in a coarse, 

 vulgar hound any more than they do in 

 the roughest specimens of the human race. 

 The invaluable perfection of nose, as it is 

 termed, I take it, consists in exquisite 

 sensibility of the olfactory system, with a 



