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the affinity of the Indian dogs, in that country, to 

 wolves. I might easily adduce other instances. 

 These are sufficient for my purpose. They evidently 

 show, that the Indian dog existed in America before 

 the Swedes planted their first colony in Pennsylvania. 

 Consequently, we have no difficulty in answering 

 Mr. Bartram's first question, which I have stated. 



Still, however, Kalm's observation is interesting. 

 It leads us to suspect, that the dog of the Indians is 

 common to North-America and to the northern parts 

 of Europe. Neither should this circumstance, in 

 whatever light we may view the original of the Indian 

 dog, excite our surprise. If, as very many of the 

 traders and others suppose, this dog is the produce 

 of the wolf and the common fox, his parents existed 

 in the old as well as in the new world. He may have 

 been formed in America by the union of these two 

 animals; or he may have migrated into America from 

 Europe, along with many other animals, which, it is 

 highly probable, owe their original to that portion of 

 the globe, or to Asia. For that America has receiv- 

 ed some of its animals (beside its human inhabitants) 

 from Asia and from Europe, I have very little doubt*. 



I conjecture it will be found, that the dog of the 

 Greenlanders mentioned by Crantzf, and other wri- 



* See New Views, &c. Preliminary Discourse, p. 101, 102. 



t The History of Greenland, &c. Vol- i. p. 74. English transla- 

 tion. London: 1767. "The Greenlanders (says this author) 

 have no tame beasts but dogs of a middle size, which look more 

 like wolves than dogs. Most of them are white, yet there are 



