. St Bernard. powers of scent, but he can also to a certainty keep the track, in spite of snowstorms and bewildering drifts. The dogs have been used by the monks in these ways, and in ?io other, for years, and they have acquired a well- deserved high reputation for perseverance, sagacity, and power of scent. " The old breed died out many years ago, and we doubt whether the monks have possessed the present race of dogs more than forty or fifty years.

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