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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
Sir Charles Stewart Menteath, Bart., of Closebum 
Dumfriesshire, had an extremely small and beautifully 
formed pointer. His length, from the point of the nose to 
the tip of the tail, was only two feet and half an inch. From 
one fore-foot to the other, across the shoulders, two feet; 
length of the head, six inches; girth of the chest, one foot 
three inches. He was a most perfect miniature of the best 
formed English pointer. His colour was white, with dark 
liver-coloured patches on each side of the head, extending 
half-way down the neck ; the ears, with some patches down 
the back, were also of the same colour; and numerous dark 
liver-coloured spots sprinkled his entire body. His olfactory 
sense exhibited itself in a high degree. 
The late Earl of Lauderdale had some of the same dogs, 
which were broke in and pointed most admirably. Sir 
James Colquhoun, Bart., of Luss, had one of the same kind, 
which was considerably smaller than Sir 0. MenteatlTs. 
THE ENGLISH SETTER. 
This celebrated breed was produced between the Spanish 
pointer, the English water-spaniel, and springer, which, by 
careful and assiduous cultivation, has attained a very high 
degree of perfection as a sporting dog. His figure is elegant, 
and his fur presents a very pleasing diversity of colour, with 
oeautifully flowing hair, extremely villous on the lower mar¬ 
gin of the tail, and in the middle of the belly. 
The setter possesses all the high qualities of the 
pointer, with a greater degree of speed and natural vivacity 
of temper ; he, however, is not so easily broken-in as the 
pointer, and requires a certain degree of training every 
season to make him continue stanch. There have been, 
aowever, various instances of setters being self-taught. 
The setter ranges with srreat speed, and is a very hardy 
