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For example: there is no man in Britain, who 

 has not had occafion to obferve as great a diverfity in 

 regard to the coat of dogs as of flieep, 



\Ji. The fmooth-haired dog; examples of which 

 are the Italian greyhound, and Spanifli pointer. 



idl'j. The long-haired, foft, wavy-fleeced dog; as 

 in the Engliili fpaniel, and Newfoundland dog. - 



3<i/y. The wool-bearing dog, or, at leaft, the dog 

 that carries a coat, which, for clofenefs, length, and 

 foftnefs, may be compared to wool, is very common. 

 Some of them carrying an immenfe quantity of hair 

 of a long lank quality, and others carrying it of a 

 clofe curled texture, very like the fleece of many 

 kinds of (heep. The fleece of thefe creatures muft 

 be ftiorn at the beginning of fummer, to let them be , 

 comfortably cool ; and I have feen it fpun and worked 

 into {lockings, which could not be diftinguifhed iFrom 

 wool. 



N. B. There is a kind of fox-flcin, in Siberia, that 

 carries a fur exactly like wool^ as I have been affured 

 by a gentleman who lived long there. The RuflTian 

 name of it, being literally tranflated, is, the little 

 dog^s fur. 



The fame diverfity is obfervable in regard to 

 goats: as, 



iji. The fmooth fluort-haired goat, very common. 



2dly. The long-haired fliaggy goat, very common 

 alfo. The hair of this kind of goat is ufually very 

 coarfej but underneath it, as in the long-haired 



breeds 



