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the domesticated animals, this instinct is very power- 

 ful ; and though, in many cases, habit may recon- 

 cile these animals to solitude, yet it often happens 

 that a cow, which has not been early accustomed to 

 be alone, can never be reconciled to it without dis- 

 covering evident marks of uneasinefs, that pre- 

 vents her from feeding. Animals of this tempera- 

 ment, when deprived of those of their own species, 

 gradually contract a fondnefs for those of any other 

 kind that is often with them ; a cow in my neigh- 

 bourhood, when forced to g& alone for a day, conti- 

 nues lowing without intermifsion, and when the millv- 

 maid approaches, the cow runs up to her, not only 

 for the relief fhe finds in being milked, but for the 

 pleasare, as would seem, of society. Often have I 

 seen a conversation between the two continued for 

 half an hour together, the milk-maid soothing her 

 for her solitary state, and the cow returning her me- 

 lancholy complainings at every pause. When a 

 solitary horse, aiheep, a goat, or a deer happen to be 

 confined in the same pasturis with a cow, they mu- 

 tually contract a reciprocal fondnefs for each other, 

 and discover a great degree of uneasinefs when they 

 are separated ; but I have met with no instance of the 

 strong power of this propensity more striking than 

 the following : A physician in the country chanced 

 to have a single horse, with no other domestic a- 

 nimal, that lived without doors, except one chicken, 

 These two solitary animals, thusi deprived of society 

 among their own species, soon contracted a fondnefs 

 for the company of each otiier, and were never asun- 

 der unlefs from unuvoidable necelsity . When tlie horse 



