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crowned with success, it is very doubtful whether the mongrel 

 race thus produced, would repay a thousandth part of the 

 trouble. 



" With regard to the dogs of our country in particular, the 

 varieties are very great, and the number every day increasing. 

 And this must happen in a country so open, by commerce, to 

 all others, and where wealth is apt to produce capricious predi- 

 lection. Here the ugliest and most useless of their kinds will 

 be entertained merely for their singularity ; and, being imported 

 only to be looked at, they will lose even that small degree of 

 sagacity which they possessed in their natural climates. From 

 this importation of foreign, useless dogs, our own native breed 

 is, perhaps, degenerated, and the varieties now to be found in 

 England are much more numerous than they were in the times 

 of Queen Elizabeth, when Doctor Caius attempted their natural 

 history. Some of those he mentions are no longer to be found 

 among us, although many have since been introduced, by no 

 means so serviceable as those which have been suffered to 

 decay. 



He divides the whole race into three kinds. The first is the 

 generous kind, which consists of the terrier, the harrier, and 

 the blood hound ; the gaze-hound, the grey- hound, the leym- 

 mer, and the tumbler ; all these are used for hunting. Then 

 the spaniel, the setter, and the water-spaniel, or finder, were 

 used for fowling ; and the spaniel gentle or lap dog, for amuse- 

 ment. The second is the farm kind ; consisting of the shep- 

 herd's dog and the mastiff. And the third is the mongrel kind ; 

 consisting of the wappe, the turnspit, and the dancer. To these 

 varieties we may add at present, the bull dog, the Dutch mas- 

 tiff, the harlequin, the pointer, and the Dane, with a variety of 

 lap-dogs, which, as they are perfectly useless, may be consid- 

 ered as unworthy of a name. 



" The blood-hound was a dog of great use, and in high 



