. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . se therewas a still larger one, presenting certaindifferences. Probably the oldest dog of whichthere is any dependable record is one whichwas partially domesticated in Switzerlandduring the Lake dwelling period. It some-what resembled our Hound and Setter, andin the formation of its skull it was equallyremote from the wolf and the jackal. Thuswe see that at a time when our ancestorswere living in caves or on pile-
. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . se therewas a still larger one, presenting certaindifferences. Probably the oldest dog of whichthere is any dependable record is one whichwas partially domesticated in Switzerlandduring the Lake dwelling period. It some-what resembled our Hound and Setter, andin the formation of its skull it was equallyremote from the wolf and the jackal. Thuswe see that at a time when our ancestorswere living in caves or on pile-supporteddwellings in a condition of civilisation akinto that of barbaric races to be found in thepresent day, the dog was already system-atically kept and improved by selection. If these fossil deposits were not sufficientto prove that the earliest human beings ofwhom we have any trace had subjected thedog to their companionship, further evidenceis given in the rude, untutored drawingswhich the men of the so-called Reindeerperiod inscribed upon the imperishablerocks as records of heroic deeds and adven-tures. Most of these rock inscriptions, which GENERAL HISTORY OF THE ASSUR-BANI-PAL AND HIS ATTENDANTS PREPARINGFOR THE HUNT. nrod Gallery, for thousands of years have been laid bareto the ravages of the northern climate, arerepresentations of ships and boats, withfigures of men and animals, and in many ofthem are to be foundtracings of a smallquadruped in whichcanine characteristicsare readily recognis-able. In one such ex-ample, discovered atBohuslan, on the shoresof the Cattegat, therecan be distinguishedseveral figures of seems to be mind-ing a horse, another isbeing led by a man,and a third appears tobe chasing a of dogs arealso to be found en-graved by prehistoric Assyrian mastiffs artists, who have From a Bas-relief in the B striven to record their impressions on tabletsof bone and horn. Evidence exists to show that a tamespecies of Canidcz
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