Assertion: mastiff | /r/CapableOf | have become scarcer
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text: After the cessation of the sport of bear baiting, the Mastiff seems to have become scarcer and scarcer, so that Sydenham Edwards in the Cynographica Britannica, published in 1800, and Taplin in The Sportsman’s Cabinet, published in 1803 inform us that the bred has been deteriorated by numerous crosses and was rarely to be seen in its purity,” explains Hutchinson’s.
text: After the cessation of the sport of bear baiting, the Mastiff seems to have become scarcer and scarcer, so that Sydenham Edwards in the Cynographica Britannica, published in 1800, and Taplin in The Sportsman’s Cabinet, published in 1803 inform us that the bred has been deteriorated by numerous crosses and was rarely to be seen in its purity,” explains Hutchinson’s.