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sense of scent. Some of the stories told of the extraordinary 

 journeys made by dogs, apparently without anything to guide 

 them but their natural instinct, seem almost incredible. 



Captain Brown tells a story of a gentleman of Glasgow, who 

 was unfortunately drowned in the river Oder while bathing 

 during a continental tour. A Newfoundland dog, who was his 

 travelling companion, made every effort to save him, but 

 failing to do so, found his way either to Frankfort, or Ham- 

 burgh, where he went on board a vessel bound for England, 

 from which he landed somewhere on the coast, finding his 

 way ultimately to the person from whom he had been origin- 

 ally purchased, and who lived near Holyrood palace. 



Another dog who, on arriving in England from Newfound- 

 land, was given to a gentleman in London, was sent by him 

 to a friend in Scotland, by water. The dog, however, made 

 his escape and found his way back to his old master at Fish 

 Street Hill, London, though as Mr. Jesse puts it "in so 

 exhausted a state that he could only express his joy at seeing 

 his master and then die.'' 



This instinct seems to be common to many varieties of 

 dogs. Captain Brown tells of a Dalmatian or coach-dog 

 which Lord Maynard lost in France, and which he found 

 at his house on his return to England, though how. it 

 had got there he never could trace. It is not necessary, 

 says Captain Brown, that the dog shall have previously 

 travelled the ground by which it returns. A person who 

 went by sea from Aberdeen to Leith, lost his dog at the 

 latter place, and found it on his return at Aberdeen. It must 

 have travelled over a country unknown to it, and have crossed 

 the firths of Forth and Tay. 



Illustrations might easily be multiplied. Mr. Jesse tells of 

 a dog which was presented to the Captain of a collier by a 

 gentleman residing at Wivenhoe in Essex and which on being 

 landed at Sunderland found its way back to its old master, 

 and also of a spaniel belonging to Colonel Hardy which after 



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