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CHAPTER III. 
DOMESTICATED DOGS, HUNTING BY THE NOSE,“ AND BOTH FINDING 
AND KILLING THEIR GAME, COMMONLY KNOWN EITHER’ AS 
HOUNDS OR TERRIERS. 
1. The Southern Hound—z. The Bloodhound—3. The Staghound—4, The 
Foxhound—s. The Harrier—6. The Beagle—7. The Otter-hound—8. 
The Great Dane—g. The Basset and other French Hounds—1o. The 
Modern Basset Hournd—z1. The Dachshund—12. The Fox-Terrier 
(Rough and Smooth)—13. The Hard-Haired Scotch Terrier—14, The 
lrish Terrier—15.. The Welsh Terrier—16. The Skye Terrier—17. The 
Dandie Dinmont Terrier—18, The Smooth English Terriers—19. The 
Bedlington Terrier—2o: The Halifax Blue’Fawn or Yorkshire Terrier 
—21. The Airdale Terrier. 
I—THE SOUTHERN HOUND. 
Tats hound is now extinct in its purity, all now existing being 
more or less crossed with other breeds to increase the pace 
required by modern fashion. Until fox-hunting began to be 
regarded as a national sport, our hounds were divided into two 
kinds—the Southern hound and the Northern hound, of which the 
latter was the faster of the two, but still not approaching our 
modern foxhound in that respect. Hundreds of portraits exist of 
the several old-fashioned hounds under the name of talbots, blood- 
hounds, &c.; but they differ so much among themselves as to 
be clearly unreliable. It is currently believed that these hounds 
were possessed of noses more tender than those of the foxhound, 
and this opinion is supported by the accounts of chases lasting 
for many hours, and as having been maintained on colder scents 
than would be owned in the present day. It is, however, probable 
that the alterations in agriculture will account in great measure 
for this apparent change, for there is no doubt that drainage, now 
almost universal, diminishes scent very considerably. 
Both the Northern and Southern hound were large, “ throaty ” 
