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THE TERRIER. 



Cants ierrarius, Flem. 



VIGNETTE, AND PLATES XVII., XVIII., XVIII.* 



If there be an original and indigenous dog of Britain, 

 it is surely the species we have now under review ; 

 for if the Irish wolf-dog or a questionable gaze-hound 

 were derived from the British wolf, such a conquest 

 over a powerful and ferocious animal could scarcely 

 have been achieved without the aid and intelligence 

 of a previously domesticated and smaller species. 

 But it is more likely the terrier of antiquity was of 

 the same race with the hard-footed dogs of the 



