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anatomy of the hound — legs, feet, ankles, — the whole 

 form appears in a different light from that in which it is 

 generally beheld. For the same reason that, in such a 

 position, faulty shape could not escape detection, the 

 beauties of symmetry are more prominently conspicuous. 

 It would be difficult to conceive anything more com- 

 plete than all the arrangements : — to my companions, 

 each of whom had been engaged in the formation of a 

 new establishment, and to myself, then in the course of a 

 round of such inspections, some of which might, in the 

 recital, offer a fearful contrast, they were of striking 

 interest. I should utterly fail in the description of that 

 which, to be appreciated, must be seen ; I fall back, 

 therefore, upon a repetition of the motto, with which I 

 headed this chapter — 



" Singula quid referam ? Nil non laudabile vidi." 



When I say that, upon being told that the route which 

 we followed to the stud, the stable, and the kennel, was 

 the one by which the fairest of the creation paid their 

 constant visits to the same objects ; — when I thought of 

 the feet which had sanctified the ground upon which we 

 trod, of the eyes which were wont to beam with pleasure 

 upon all that was to us most pleasing, and could still 

 hold it to be, in any degree, worthy of such admiration, 

 I felt that it was beyond the power of language to pay 

 to any scene a higher tribute. 



