THE WATER-SPANIEL. 
Tus beautiful, sagacious, and useful species, like the 
varieties last described, is not so general in this country, 
as he deserves to be, the rather that many districts inland, 
to the westward and southward more especially, are singu- 
larly adapted to his use. 
A portion of his blood is not unfrequently to be 
found in imperfectly bred setters, and although it unques- 
tionably detracts from the value of the animal as a pure- 
