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tives of North- America, and the same kind as those 

 in the north of Europe and Asia, is well worth 

 enquiring*." 



The fact mentioned by Kalm, and the hint sug- 

 gested by Mr. Bartram, have sometimes, for a mo- 

 ment, led me to believe, that the wolf-like dog of 

 the northern Indians may have been received from 

 the Swedes, who formed a settlement in Pennsylva- 

 nia, early in the seventeenth century. But a little 

 consideration has compelled me to relinquish this 

 idea. For it is certain, that the Indians were in pos- 

 session of this breed of dogs, long before the arrival 

 of the Swedes in America. 



We have already seen, that the Spaniards found 

 domesticated dogs among the Indians of Florida, be- 

 fore the middle of the sixteenth century, almost one 

 hundred years earlier than the Swedish settlement in 

 Pennsylvania. It is not, indeed, certain, that these 

 dogs were of the half- wolf-breed. But it is probable 

 that they were. In the year 1585, the celebrated 

 navigator, Captain John Davis, observed dogs " with 

 pricked ears," in the lands about Hudson's Bayf. It 

 is highly probable that these dogs were a variety of 

 the half- wolf-breed of the Indians. Captain John 

 Smith, who arrived in Virginia in 1607, a few years 

 before the Swedish settlement, expressly mentions 



* A letter in my possession (dated January 27th, 1757) from 

 Mr. John Bartram to Mr. George Edwards, 

 t Forster. 



