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or ought to be—* The Setter; the Pointer; the Cocker; 
the Water-dog; the Newfoundland; the Deerhound; the 
Foxhound; and the Beag'e.” 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 minutiz 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. 
