This large and handsome animal derives its name from its native land. It is possessed of extraordinary mental powers, and is capable of instruction to a degree that is rarely seen in any domestic animal

In its native home this noble dog is often shamefully treated, as we are informed that it is frequently converted into a beast of burden, and forced to suffer even greater hardships than those which generally fall to the lot of animals which are used for the carriage of goods or the traction of vehicles. This poor animal's life is often one of continued privation, and its useful life rendered thoroughly miserable. In winter the chief employment of the inhabitants is to cut fuel, and the occupation of this dog is to draw the carts.

They are frequently urged beyond their strength, and are moreover indifferently and meagrely fed with putrid salt fish, the produce of some preceding season. Very many of these noble dogs sink under the double effects of fatigue and starvation; such are the usages to which it is exposed in its own land.

Here, however, the Newfoundland Dog has found a home; it is raised to the proper position which nature intended it to occupy, and is the faithful friend and companion of man, not his abject, miserable, wretched slave. Many and many a time has it doubly repaid its master for considerate kindness by rescuing him, or some of the fallen creatures of humanity, from mortal peril. Innumerable are the instances upon record of human beings being rescued from drowning by the timely assistance of this dog; and not only does it recognise at a glance the dire necessity of immediate help, but it seems to comprehend thoroughly the entire situation of the drowning, by selecting the head and holding it above the water, as though it had studied the subject with accurate reason. Not only has this wonderful animal saved hundreds of individual lives, but it has even been the means of saving an entire ship's crew by swimming ashore with a rope in its mouth, when the vessel was being remorselessly dashed to fragments against the rocks.

I might dwell for a considerable time upon the heroic deeds of this animal, and might multiply anecdote upon anecdote describing the wondrous powers it possesses, but I must proceed and leave room for others.