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THE PARENT OF THE MODERN COACH-DOG. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Dalmatian dogs they are not, although a Turkish 

 grandee might well have possessed specimens of the 

 dog in that country. We figure it accordingly. 



The Turnspit^ so called from being formerly 

 used to run in a kind of wheel to turn a kitchen 

 spit. There are rough and smooth dogs of this 

 kind, both evidently derived by malformation from 

 hounds or terriers. Buffon figured them under 

 the names of Basset a jambes droites, and Basset a 

 jamhes torses; some having the legs straight, and 

 others crooked, while the body is often as heavy as 

 a fox-hound's. That breed derived from terriers is 

 much more active and bold than the other, and 

 Laving the legs straighter, is capable of more fatigue. 

 The turnspit form is however found among the Pa- 

 riah dogs of India : the Techichi, we have already 

 noticed, is likewise of a lengthened structure : and 

 in Paraguay, dogs of the European races, with 

 large heads, bodies, and tails, but very short, dis- 

 torted, and nodose limbs, are very common ; some 

 have been measured three feet in length from nose 

 to tail, whose extremities were only foiir inches 



