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sagacity and attachment to their masters, render 
them, in particular situations, highly valuable. 
In the summer of 1792, a gentleman went to 
Portsmouth for the* benefit of sea-bathing. He 
was conducted in one of the machines into the 
water ; but being unacquanted with the steepness 
of the shore, and no swimmer, he found himself, 
the instant he quitted the machine, nearly out of 
his depth. The state of alarm into which he was 
thrown, increased his danger ; and, unnoticed 
by the person who attended the machine, he would 
unavoidably have been drowned, had not a large 
Newfoundland dog, which by accident was stand- 
ing on the shore and observed his distress, plunged 
in to his assistance. The dog seized him by the 
hair, and conducted him safely to the shore ; but 
it was sometime before he recovered. The gen- 
tleman afterwards purchased the dog at a high 
price, and preserved him as a treasure of equal va- 
lue with his whole fortune. 
During a severe storm in the winter of 1789, a 
ship belonging to Newcastle was lost near Yar- 
mouth ; and a Newfoundland dog alone escaped 
to shore, bringing in his mouth the captain’s 
pocket-book. He landed amidst a number of 
people, several of whom in vain attempted to take 
from him his prize. The sagacious animal, as if 
sensible of the importance of the charge, which, 
mail probability was delivered to him by his pe- 
rishing master, at length leapt fawningly against 
the breast of a man, who had attracted his notice 
among the crowd, and delivered the book to him. 
The dog immediately returned to the place where 
he had landed ; and watched with great attention 
for all the things that came from the wrecked ves- 
sel, seizing them, and endeavouring to bring them 
to land. 
A gentleman, walking by the side of the river 
