4 V " VDO G. 21? 
times of queen Elizabeth/ when Doctor Cains 
attempted their natural history. Some of these he 
mentions are no longer to be found among us, 
although many have since been introduced, by no 
means so serviceable as those which have been 
suffered to decay. 
“ He divides the whole race into three kinds : 
The first is the generous kind which consists of 
the terrier, the harrier, and the blood-hound ; the 
gaze-hound, the grey -hound, the lemmer, and the 
tumbler ; all these axe used for hunting. Then 
the spaniel, the setter, and the water-spaniel, or 
finder, were used for fowling ; and the spaniel 
gentle, or lap-dog, for amusement. The second 
is the farm kind, consisting of the shepherd's 
dog and the mastiff. And the third is the mon- 
grel kind, consisting of the wappe, the turnspit, and 
the dancer. To these varieties we may add at 
present the bull-dog, the Dutch mastiff, tile har- 
lequin, the pointer, and the Dane, with a variety 
of lap-dogs, which, as they are perfectly useless, 
may be considered as unworthy of a name. 
The terrier is a small kind of hound, with 
rough hair, made use of to force the fox or the 
badger out of their holes ; or rather to give notice, 
by their barking, in what part of their kennel the 
fox or badger resides, when the sportsmen intend to 
dig them out. 
The harrier, as well as the beagle and the 
fox-lioOnd, are used for hunting ; of all other 
animals, they have the quickest and most distin- 
guishing sense of smelling. The properly breed- 
ing, matching, and training these, make up the 
business of many men's lives. 
The blood-hound was a dog of great use, 
and high esteem among our ancestors. Its employ 
was to recover any game that had escaped from 
the hunter, or had been killed md- stolen out ©f 
VOL. I. ...... F f 
