[ "Domestication of Animals / The Reflector ]
The Reflector was a short-lived (1810 - 1811) quarterly journal edited by the English poet, writer, and editor Leigh Hunt.
Issue #4 (Volume 2, 1811) featured an essay (signed only "S.") on "The Domestication of Animals," which purported to trace the changes that happen in animals as they undergo domestication.
Newfoundlands are mentioned in the section of how canine anatomy changed as different dog breeds were developed for different purposes:
The foot of the Newfoundland-dog, by extending his toes in swimming, is become broad aad palmated, and the membrane which connects the toes is stretched so as to act like the webbed foot of water-fowl. Induced instincts accompany these great changes, and are hereditary with them. (387)