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six inches; round the chest one foot three inches. He is an exquisite minia- 
ture of the English pointer, being in all respects similar to him. His colour 
is white, with dark liver-coloured patches on each side of the head, extending 
half way down the neck; the ears, with some patches on the back, are of 
the same colour, and numerous small dark-brown spots appear over his 
whole body and legs. This beautiful little animal has an exquisite sense 
of smell, and it is said that some of the same variety possessed by the Earl 
of Lauderdale have been broken in and make excellent pointers; although 
from their minute size it cannot be expected that they will be able to do 
much work. I have not been able to ascertain the native country of this 
variety, although I have been informed it is common in the south of Germany. 
Sir James Colquhon has a dog of the same breed, which is even smaller 
than that belonging to Mr. Menteith.” 
In Colonel Thornton’s ‘‘Tour through the North of England and 
Scotland,” made in 1786, we have an occasional reference to other people’s 
pointers in addition to those he took with him. Of the latter he gives no 
description, but in one place says: “Pero, Ponto, Dargo, Shandy, Carlo 
and Romp, all whelps, behaved incomparably.” The Duke of Hamilton’s 
pointers are mentioned, two of which were brought into the house 
for inspection on the evening of the Colonel’s arrival at Hamilton 
House. “A brace of finer looking dogs I never saw. The one 
is a cross from a foxhound, full of bone and strength, and appeared a most 
capital moor dog, but does not excel for partridge; the other, Pero, is not 
much better.” At Wigton in the south of Scotland he heard of some 
famous pointers, looked at a brace, and “tried them on the road to Ouse 
Bridge, but did not approve of them. I scarcely ever found one pointer in 
fifty answer my expectations, either for shape, bone or action, and the 
different methods of breaking, if they are not whelps, make them irre- 
claimable.” He makes no mention of any pointers when he visited Captain 
Fleming at Barochan Castle on more than one occasion, yet in the published 
account of the tour there is a copy of a painting of Mr. Fleming and his 
hawks, and in it a very good pointer, undoubtedly a portrait of one of his 
favourite dogs; the small spaniels and the poodle shown in this painting 
are also worthy of notice, some of the former being quite Blenheim in their 
character and size. 
Colonel Thornton’s “ Tour through France,” in 1802, gives a little more 
doggy news, though it is all too scant; and pointers are only mentioned 
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