THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. 



great ftrength enables it to draw confiderable weights, and four of them 

 yoked to a fledge, will trail three hundred weight of wood, with apparent 

 eafe, for the fpace of feveral miles. Their docility is no lefs confpicuous, in the 

 manner of performing this fervice, which they execute without a driver, and 

 having delivered their load at the deftined place, return in the fame order to 

 the woods whence they were difpatched, and where their labours are 

 commonly rewarded with a meal of dried Mi. 



The Newfoundland Dog is of infinite fervice to feafaring perfons, 

 particularly in coafting veffels, and thofe which navigate rivers ; as, in cafe 

 of any one's accidentally falling overboard, the Dog will inftantly jump after 

 the perfon, and either bring him fafe to land, or keep him from finking, till 

 proper afiiftance be procured. Of this, numberlefs infiances have occurred, 

 fufficient to efiablilh the fact beyond a pofiibility of doubt. 



They alfo make excellent houfe or yard Dogs, and guard the premifes 

 committed to their care with the ftri&eft fidelity. They have often been 

 known to feize, and even kill, houfe-breakers, which have intruded on the 

 houfes configned to their protection ; and lately, at the royal hunt, in 

 Windfor Foreft, the Deer in chafe, which was of the large red kind, in 

 attempting to leap over the palings of a park at Warfield, was inftantly 

 feized by the throat, by a large Newfoundland Dog, which happened to be 

 loofe in the park, and feverely punilhed for its intrufion. 



