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colours are described as white and yellow ; and in 

 Buffon s supplement, white and black, with rufous 

 spots above the eyes. All writers agree that it is a 

 small animal, kept as a kind of lapdog by the 

 women, and yet occasionally returning to the state 

 of independence. Mr. W. Bullock brought from 

 Mexico a specimen, which is here figured ; it was 

 stuffed, and shown in his exhibition of Mexican 

 curiosities at the Egyptian Hall. That enterprising 

 traveller described it as of the wild race ; yet, from 

 its appearance, we at first considered it to be a 

 Newfoundland puppy. It was small, Avith rather 

 a large head ; elongated occiput ; full muzzle ; pen- 

 dulous ears ; haA-ing long soft hair on the body. In 

 colour, it was entirely white, excepting a large 

 black spot covering each ear, and part of the fore- 

 head and cheek, Avith a fulvous mark above each 

 eye, and another black spot on the rump ; the tail 

 was rather long, well fringed, and white. 



The Goschis of Charlevoix, or Gasques of Gai- 

 cilasso and Peres, were small dogs absolutely mute, 

 with doANTiy, or silky, hair of different, and often 

 of bright colours, possessed by the natives of St. 

 Domingo, and used in the chace before the arrival 

 of the Spaniards. The name appears to be a mu- 

 tation of Guarachay, already noticed ; and, in that 

 case, it must have been imported from the southern 

 continent ; most likely by the conquering Caribs. 



Reverting to the dogs of the more temperate 

 regions of the old continent, we find the lupine ap- 

 pearance stiU strongly marked in the characters of 



