THE GREAT BREEDERS OF THE MODERN MASTIFF. 17! 



About 1840, Col. H. Smith writing for the Naturalist's 

 Library, on the Dog, vol. x., followed Caius by denominating 

 the mastiff group as canes urcani, and gives a cut of a skull, 

 showing the head of a mastiff with a considerably undershot 

 jaw. He points out, that of all domestic dogs, it is a group 

 marked with characteristics of a distinct origin ; noting the 

 arch of their skulls, and structure of lower jaw, he 

 also mentions their semi-erect: ears, their thick neck, and 

 short muzzle. 



In 1845 W. C. L. Martin issued his work on the dog, in 

 which there is a most typical cut of the true English mastiff, 

 the carriage of the dog is most characteristic, the head is 

 simply superb, muzzle broad and short, lips very pendulous, 

 forehead broad, stop very deep, cheeks well developed, the 

 ears however are somewhat large, but not houndy, the stern 

 is also somewhat rough. In this work of Martin's there is 

 the cut of the skull of a mastiff, and the specimen from which 

 it was drawn (which would be previous to 1845) was plainly 

 very much undershot, which furnishes additional proof that 

 the English mastiff of that date was so. In page 12 of the 

 1859 edition of Stonehenge on the Dog, is figured the skull of 

 a mastiff, which although smaller is seemingly a copy from 

 the cut in Martin's work. 



