Field Trial Beagle Type 179 



all the breeding, and yet today be clearly traceable 

 as of the 'Rowett' strain. General Rowett's orig- 

 inal importations were Sam, Dolly, Major, Warrior 

 and some others less well loiown or remembered. 

 From this original blood eminated Lee, Rosey, 

 Rambler, Rall}^, Countess, Venus, Diana, and many 

 other good and tried veterans now gone. 



"Some few years later in the early eighties, Mr. 

 N. Elmore, of Granby, Connecticut, imported 

 Ringwood and Countess, who was by Bismarck ex 

 Gayless. Mr. Colin Cameron of Brickville, Penn- 

 sylvania, and Captain William Assheton of Rock 

 Springs, Virginia, becoming interested, brought 

 out Racket, by Rally ex Louise, she by Lee ex 

 Rosey, also Rally by the original Sam ex Dolly. 



"Mr. Pottinger Dorsey of Newmarket, Mary- 

 land, maintained the original 'Rowett' blood, up to 

 his recent death, and probably is credited with 

 breeding more real good beagles than any other 

 man in this country, both for work and beauty. The 

 list of beagles bred are too numerous to mention, 

 but principally among them were, Fitz-Hugh Lee, 

 Jupiter, Lee 2nd, Potomac, Storm Cloud, Wander- 

 er, Emiline, Venus and many others. These dogs 

 have now nearly all passed away [1898], yet at the 

 present time at our field trials, as well as bench 

 shows, there will be found many of the pui'e Rowett 



