WATCHDOGS AND HOUSE-DOGS. 



I.— THE BULLDOG. 



"Top," a pure Bulldog, the Property of C. Stockdale, Esq. 



F. Cuvier has asserted that this dog has a brain smaller in 

 proportion than any other of his congeners, and in this way- 

 accounts for his assumed want of sagacity. But though his 

 authority is deservedly high, I must beg leave to doubt the fact 

 as well as the inference ; for if the brain is weighed with the body 

 of the dog from which it was taken, it will be found to be rela- 

 tively above the average, the mistake arising from the evident 

 disproportion between the brain and the skull. The whole 

 head, including the zygomatic arches and cheek-bones, is so much 

 larger than that of the spaniel of the same total weight of body, 

 that the brain may well look small, as it lies in the middle of the 

 various processes intended for. the attachment of the strong 

 muscles of the jaw and neck. I have recently been able to 



