168 Account of the Irifo Wolf-dog. 
Having thus fimply ftated the principles, and the various 
modifications of iron; thofe operations which have been 
practifed for obtaining the various ftates of the metal come 
next to -be related ; prefaced by fome account of the mate- 
rials ufed; the manner in which they are obtained; their 
preparation and application toufe; previous to which, I fhall 
forward, for the next number cf the Philofophical Magazine, 
a few remarks relative to the hiftory of the manufactures of 
iron and fteel in Britain, which may not prove unacceptable 
to thofe who feel themfelves interefted in this important 
branch of national induftry. 
ae Ste 
X, Account of the Canis Graius Hibernicus, or Iri/h Wolf- 
dog, defcribed in Pennani’s Hijlory of Quadrupeds, third 
edit, Vol. I. p. 241. By A. B. LamBeErtT, E/g. FR. and 
F.L.S. From, the TranfaStions of the Linnean Society, 
Vol. LT. 1797. 
Tu IS drawing of the Irith wolf-dog was given me’ by 
lord Altamont ; done exactly the natural fize of one in his 
lordfhip’s. poffeffion, at Weftport in the county of Mayo, 
Treland. During my ftay there in 1790, I had frequent op- 
portunities of obferving thefe dogs; lord Altamont having 
eight of them, the only ones now in the kingdom. There 
is a man employed on purpofe to take care of them, as they 
are with difficulty bred up and kept healthy. 
I took the mcafurement of one of the largeft, which is.as 
‘follows: From the point of the nofe ‘to the tip of the tail 
fixty-one inches, tail feventeen and a half long; from the 
tip of the nofe to the back part of the fkull ten inches; from 
the back part of the fkull to the beginning of the tail thirty- 
three inches; from the toe to the top of the fore-fhoulder 
twenty-cieht inches and a half; the length of the leg fixteen 
inches; from the point of the hind toes to the top ‘of the 
hind 
