82 Modern Dogs. 



foundland has always been greater than that of any 

 other country. 



Little was heard about the Newfoundland dog 

 until towards the beginning of the present century. 

 Bingley, in his " Natural History," date 1809, does not 

 allude to him, but a little earlier the " Sportsman's 

 Cabinet " mentions him as being " universally known 

 in every part of the kingdom." Reinagle gives an 

 illustration of the dog, a black and white, very much 

 of the same type as we have now, and the writer of 

 the article in the work named eulogising him in 

 grandiloquent terms, makes him indeed a canine 

 prodigy. But, as we have said, our modern dog and 

 that originally brought from the island are totally 

 distinct, and even so far back as when Richardson 

 wrote, about 1845, tne difference was acknowledged, 

 and the strain known in this country was said to be 

 " less sagacious, less active, and more apt to display 

 irregularity of temper than the original breed," 

 which was much the smaller animal of the two. 



Here we have more to do with the Newfoundland 

 in 1893 than with what he was said to be very much 

 earlier in the present century. Now we have two 

 distinct Newfoundlands : the one quite black, where 

 even a white chest and white toes are supposed to 

 be a disfigurement to a certain extent ; the other 

 black and white, called " Landseers," after the artist, 



