Prodotti animali; . ot forma. Sarà sufficiente per il nostro scopo attuale per classe cani sotto tre teste :- 1. Cani da fattoria, che comprende il cane freddo, i pastori androvers, il mastiff, e il bulldog. 2. Cani da caccia, come il terrier, il cane, il più arrier, il thebeagle, e il levriero. 3. Sparare cani, come il puntatore, il setter, e il cane spaniel.The è vecchio a quindici anni, e raramente vive oltre venti. I cani sono incoraggiati e tenuti nella maggior parte dei paesi ascompagni, casalinghi, guardiani per le pecore, per l'inseguimento, e in molti casi per le bestie di pescaggio. 238 SLITTE ARTICHE PER CANI. Di qui

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Animal products; . ot form. It will be sufficient for our present purpose to class dogs underthree heads :— 1. Farm dogs, which includes the colly, the shepherds anddrovers dog, the mastiff, and the bulldog. 2. Hunting dogs, as the terrier, the hound, the harrier, thebeagle, and the greyhound. 3. Shooting dogs, as the pointer, the setter, and the spaniel.The dog is old at fifteen years, and seldom lives beyond twenty. Dogs are encouraged and kept in most countries ascompanions, housedogs, guardians for sheep, for the chase, andin many cases for beasts of draught. 238 ARCTIC DOG SLEDGES. In this country the employment of the dog for drawing burdens, or as a turnspit, has been done away with; but on the Continentthey are still harnessed to small carts, and dog-trains for sledgesare much employed in the Arctic Regions. In Siberia, Greenland, and other northern countries, five dogsare yoked to a sledge, two and two, with the fifth in front as aleader. In general, only one person rides in a sledge, who sits. ARCTIC DOG SLEDGE. sideways, and guides the animals by reins fastened to their collars.Such is their fleetness, that they have been known to perform ajourney of 270 miles in three days and a half, and so great theirstrength, that they will convey a sledge containing three personsand their baggage sixty miles in a day over the snow. The Esquimaux Dog (Cams famzliarlstvax. borcalls).—CaptainLyon thus describes the Esquimaux dog: In form he is verysimilar to our shepherds dogs in England, but is more muscularand broad-chested, owing to the constant and severe work towhich he is brought up. His ears are pointed, and the aspect of THE ESQUIMAUX DOG. 239 the head is somewhat savage. In size a fine dog is about theheight of the Newfoundland breed, but broad like a mastiff inevery part except the nose. Young dogs are put into harness assoon as they can walk. Every dog is distinguished by a name, and the angry repetition of it has an effect as instantaneous as anapplication

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