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or ought to be — " The Setter; the Pointer ; the Cooker ; 

 the Water-dog ; the Newfoundland ; the Deerhound ; the 

 Foxhound; and the Beagle." To each of these I shall 

 devote a few remarks, as to their characters, qualifications, 

 points and uses ; to the services and localities for which 

 they are the best fitted ; how to get them good ; how to 

 keep them so ; and how to use them to the best advan- 

 tage. 



I shall not go into rninutise, of breeding or natural 

 history — such disquisitions will be found elsewhere, in the 

 works I have named above, and in many English books, 

 which cannot be too highly recommended ; I would par- 

 ticularly specify Colonel Hutchinson, on Dog breaking; 

 Scrope, on Deer stalking ; Colquhoun, on the Moor and 

 the Loch; and Hawker, on Seafowl shooting; who are 

 the best authorities on their several respective specialities. 



I may here add, that the field for wild-sports, and the 

 market for sporting dogs, like the course of Empire, 

 " westward take their way." The failure of game in the 

 Eastern and Middle States renders it yearly more and 

 more difficult to break dogs on the Atlantic seaboard, or 

 to obtain well broke dogs thereon. 



English broke dogs do not succeed any where in 

 America, owing to the difference of the ground, the game, 

 and the mode of hunting it. English bred dogs, how- 

 ever, of all kinds, with the single exception of the Rus- 

 sian setter, are the best for all purposes, indeed, the only 

 dogs worth having. 



