NATURAL HISTORY. 
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fhe P O I N T E 11. 
TT HIS dog is moft excellent in Spain. It 
is about the fize of a bull dog, and Ipot- 
ted like a fpaniel. In difpofition, it is docile, 
and capable of being trained for the grcateft 
ailiftance to the fportfman who delights in 
fliooting. It is aftonifliing to fee to what a 
degree of obedience thefe animals may be 
brought. Their fight is equally acute with 
their fccnt ; from which quicknefs of fight, 
they are enabled to perceive, at a diftance, 
the fmalleft lign from their mailer. When 
they fcent their game, they fix themfelves 
like ftatues, in the very attitude in which 
they happen to be at the moment. If one of 
their fore feet is not on the ground when 
they fcent, it remains fufpended, left, by 
putting it to the ground, the game might be 
too foon alarmed with the noife. In this po- 
fition they remain, until the fportfman comes 
near enough, and is prepared to take his 
Ihot; when he gives the word, and the dog 
immediately fprings the game. Its attitude 
has often been chol'en as a pidture for the ar- 
tift to delineate. 
Of the Ollier animals of the dog kind, 
there arc, the wolf, fox, jackall, Ifatis, and 
hyaena. 
Of thefe, we feledl the hyania and wolf, as 
the moft lingular and remarkable. 
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