2793+ on varieties of domestic animals. = 12% 
The fhepherd’s dog Me Buffin considers as the pa- 
rent-stock from which all the different varieties have 
been produced, by a change of climate, education, 
food, and other circumstances. ‘* This animal (he 
«© observes.) still ‘continues pretty nearly in its ori- 
‘« ginal state among the poor in temperate climates. 
«« Being transported into colder regions, he becomes 
‘* smaller, as among the Laplenders ; but becomes 
“ more perfect in Iceland, Rufsia, and Siberia, 
«s where the climate is lefs rigorous, and the people 
* more civilized.” 
But if there is a difference in 
the dogs of these countries, it can scarcely be owing 
to the cause afsigned, as the climate of Lapland i is as 
mild as that of a great part of Siberia, and the inha- 
bitants perhaps more civilized. 
«© The fhepherd’s dog, (he farther observes), if 
transported to temperate climates, and among pco- 
ple entirely civilized, such as England; France, 
or Germany, becomes divested of his savage air, 
his pricked ears, his long thick hair, and from the 
influence of climate and education will become a 
‘* bull-dog, a mastiff, a beagle, or 2 hound.”—— 
But if this were the case, whence fhould it hap- 
pen that we in Britain have the race of thepherd’s 
dogs in as grea’ perfection as any where else, and 
the mastiff, bull-dog, haund, &c. in equal perfec- 
tion; andcan preserve the breeds of each of these 
kinds as distinct from one ancther, as if they had 
been bred in the most distant corners of the earth ? 
** The hound, the ter ier, and smali-spotted set. 
'** ting-dog, he considers as of the same family; and 
** afserts, that they are often all produced at the 
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