2 THE DOG; AND HOW TO BREAK HIM. 



was a closet naturalist, though a most entertain- 

 ing writer ; but what he advances relative to the 

 dog is, to say the best of it, rather difficult to 

 believe. Dogs taken from this country — either 

 ])ointers, terriers, or hounds — to the southern 

 states of America, degenerate in their offspring, if 

 they breed at all; a circumstance which will 

 account for the numbers of English dogs that are 

 shipped from Liverpool every year to New Orleans 

 or other southern transatlantic ports. It is as 

 difficult to keep a dog of any value from the dog- 

 stealers in Liverpool as it is in London ; but in 

 the former place pointers, setters, spaniels, and 

 terriers are the kinds most in demand for the 

 American market ; whilst in the latter the little 

 things distinguished as Blenheims, or King 

 Charleses, are what the dog- stealers of the metro- 

 polis appear most anxious to possess. 



The dogs of Labrador, of Lapland, of Kams- 

 chatka, as well as those of Madagascar, and the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and Guinea, are all similar 

 in form ; a form approaching that of a shepherd's 

 dog, the only difference being that the dogs of 

 the tropics are nearly destitute of hair, whilst 

 those of the higher latitudes of the temperate and 

 the frigid zones are clothed with the warm cover- 

 ing necessaiy to protect them from the incle- 

 mency of the climate. But none of these dogs 

 exhibit much disposition to hunt. The wild dogs. 



