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The coat is in many strains hard and open, and in others curly, 
but the best breeds are provided with coats nearly as silky as a 
Laverack’s. 
In colour, the black should be jet, and the tan a deep mahogany. 
The tan is shown in the same places as in the Manchester terrier, 
already described. 
(D) THE WELSH SETTER. 
Throughout Wales a very curly-coated setter is met with, which 
is said to resist the wet and cold of the mountains in a marvellous 
manner. I have seen several of them at various times, but, except- 
ing this thick curly coat, I could never make out any peculiar 
type, and their colours are as various as Mr. Laverack’s. They 
possess good pace, but hunt with their heads and tails down on 
the ground, and on this account they have never taken my fancy. 
Not knowing more of them than the above, I cannot go into 
further detail. 
(E) THE RUSSIAN SETTER. 
Having had no further experience of this dog since I wrote the 
first edition of this book, I cannot do better than transcribe the 
description I then gave :— 
This dog was at one time—that is, about twenty years ago—con- 
sidered to be superior to our English breed, and many of them 
were then introduced into the kennels of our best sportsmen, but 
they are now almost lost sight of again. In the year 1841 the 
late Mr. Lang, well known as a first-rate shot both at game and 
pigeons, and as a breeder of pointers and setters, wrote to the 
editor of the “Sporting Review” a letter warmly in praise of 
them, from which the following is an extract :— 
“Tn the season of 1839 I was asked for a week’s shooting into 
Somersetshire by an old friend, whose science in everything con- 
nected with sporting is first-rate. Then, for the first time for 
many years, I had my dogs, English setters, beaten hollow. His 
reed was from pure Russian setters, crossed by an English setter 
dog which some years ago made a sensation in the sporting 
world from his extraordinary performances; he belonged to the 
late Joseph Manton, and had been sold for a hundred guineas. 
