THE 



PHILADELPHIA 



MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL JOURNAL. 



I. Some account of the different species and varieties of 

 native American, or Indian Dogs. By the Editor. 



IT would require much observation, many experi- 

 ments, and a great deal of time, to collect all the ne- 

 cessary materials for an exact history of the Native 

 Dogs of North- America. I am by no means prepared 

 for the ample task. My object, in the present arti- 

 cle, is much more limited : to bring together a num- 

 ber of scattered facts relative to the origin and man- 

 ners of the different kinds of dogs which were found 

 among the Indians, when the Europeans first took 

 possession of the- countries of North- America. In 

 the investigation of this inquiry, I cannot pretend to 

 be very methodical. Nor do I expect to avoid errors. 

 I aim, however, at correcting some of the errors of 

 preceding writers. 



It has been asserted, by many historians and natu- 

 ralists, that there were no dogs in America, prior to 



