Modern Dogs. 



size, strength, and ferocity from the wolves that 

 then overran the country. 



There might at the same time be a smaller variety 

 of the same dog, but of this there is no proof, and 

 that the early mastiff was quite different from the 

 early bulldog in leading particulars may be safely 

 inferred, especially when, in support thereof, there 

 are extant illustrations dating from the Roman 

 period where the mastiff is attacking a horse, which 

 he is represented as doing from behind, and not 

 flying at the nose or front, which is the natural 

 seizing place of the true bulldog. 



Mr. Wynn further says that in 1823, in a work 

 entitled " Roman Antiquities, or the Durobrivae of 

 Antonicus Identified," there is a picture of a mastiff 

 galloping after a horse, and, judging from the relative 

 size of the two animals, which are both carefully and 

 accurately delineated, such dogs must have been 

 from 28 to 30 inches at the shoulder, heads broad 

 and full, muzzle very short and broad, ears small 

 and partially erect. Their necks and bodies are 

 massive, limbs short and stout, sterns fine, and 

 the tout ensemble that of long-bodied, muscular, 

 heavy mastiffs. The same writer proceeds to say 

 that such instances are proof of what the mastiff 

 was say between A.D. 100 and 150, which would be 

 about the time the vessels were made upon which 



