THE TERRIER (a). 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Fire toes before ; four behind. 

 Vifage long. 



,v, THIS little animal is a ufeful and almoft. conftant attendant on a pack of 

 Hounds. He poffeues the fenfe of fmelling in a much greater degree of 

 perfection than moll other Dogs : this faculty enables him to find out the 

 game with great readinefs; and his lize permitting him to enter the holes of 

 Foxes, &c. he foon forces them from their retreat, and obliges them to feek 

 their fafety in flight. The Terrier is the natural enemy of all thofe animals 

 which are commonly, though improperly, called vermin; as Badgers, Polecats, 

 Weafels, Rats, Mice, &c. It is pollened of great perfonal bravery, and not 

 only attacks the Badger with great courage, but fullains the combat with 

 determined fortitude, though it is fometimes very roughly handled by it. 



There are two varieties of the Terrier, one fmooth, lleek, and well 

 proportioned ; the other rough, long-backed, very ftrong, Ihort-legged, and 

 generally of a black or yellowilh colour, mixed with white ; whereas the 

 former is generally of a reddilh brown colour, or black, with tan-coloured 

 legs. The difpofitions of both nearly correfpond, but the fmooth one is neither 

 fo large, fierce, nor llrong as the other. 



It is faid the Hound, the Harrier, and the Terrier conltitute but one race; 

 for it has been remarked, that, in the fame litter, Hounds, Harriers, and 



(a) The name is derived from Terra, the Earth ; becaufe he feeks his game in holes dug in the ground. 



