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his Lordship informs me they are still able to bring the 

 stoutest hart in his forest to bay, and are altogether perfect. 



These dogs, in point of shape, resemble the greyhound ; 

 but they are larger in the bone, and shorter in the leg : 

 some of them, when in slow action, carry their tails over 

 their backs, like the pure foxhound. Their dash in making 

 a cast is most beautiful ; and they stand all sorts of rough 

 weather. 



As the above is, I think, the best cross that can possibly 

 be obtained for the modern method of deer-stalking, so it 

 should be strictly adhered to: I mean that, when you 

 wish to add to your kennel, you must take the cross in its 

 originality, and not continue to breed from the produce 

 first obtained ; for if you do this, you will soon see such 

 alarming monsters staring around you, as the warlike 

 Daunia never nourished in her woods and thickets, or as 

 cannot even be surpassed by the sculptured ones at the 

 villa of Prince Palagonia, near the shores of Palermo. 



The late celebrated sportsman, Glengarry, crossed occa- 

 sionally with a bloodhound instead of a foxhound: his 

 famous dog Hector was probably bred in this way ; and I 

 believe Maida, the dog he presented to Sir Walter Scott, 

 had also a distant cross of the bloodhound in him. Two 

 of these small bloodhounds he generously gave to me, 

 though he was chary of the breed; but they ran away 

 from my kennel, and were unfortunately lost. 



A cross with the bull-dog was once tried in the forest 

 of Atholl, to give courage ; but the produce was slow, as 

 might have been expected; and the thing was overdone, 

 for they were all killed by attacking the deer in front. 

 High-courage dogs, indeed, of every breed are subject to 



