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the man lie was to pursue, followed him by the 
scent, to the above-mentioned places, not with stand-, 
ing the multitude of market-people that went along 
the same road, and of travellers that had occasion 
to cross it ; and when the blood-hound came 
to the chief market-town, he passed through the 
streets, without taking notice of any of the people 
there ; and ceased not till he had gone to the house 
where the man he sought rested himself, and 
where he found him in an upper room, to the 
wonder of those who had accompanied him in this 
pursuit. 
A most extra ordniary instance of memory in a 
mastiff is related by M. D’Obsonville. This dog, 
which he had brought up in India from two 
months old, accompanied himself and a friend from 
Pondicherry to Benglour, a distance of more than 
three hundred leagues, fr Our journey (he conti- 
nues) occupied nearly three weeks ; and we had to 
traverse plains and mountains, and to ford rivers, 
and go along several bye-paths. The animal, 
which had certainly never been in that country 
before, lost us at Benglour, and immediately re- 
turned to Pondicherry. He went directly to the 
house of M. Beylier, then commandant of artille- 
ry, my friend, and with whom I had generally 
lived. Now the difficulty is, not so much to know 
how the dog subsisted on the road, for he was 
very strong and able to procure himself food ; but 
how he should so well have found his way, after 
an interval of more than a month ! This was an 
effort of memory greatly superior to that which the 
human race is capable of exerting. 
Stow relates an instance of a contest between 
three mastiffs and a lion, in the presence of king 
James the first. One of the dogs, being put into 
the den, was soon disabled by the lion ; which 
took him by the head and neck, and dragged him 
