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black-necked sv/an of Chili, we shall say 

 nothing ; indeed, our notice of the wild swans 

 of the northern hemisphere is intended rather 

 to give a list of the species allied more or less 

 to the tame or mute swan, than to enter into 

 the minutiae of their history. 



Here, then, we may close our account of the 

 birds legitimately coming under the head of 

 domestic poultry. A few words may be per- 

 mitted on another subject. We commenced 

 the work with a reference to the early history 

 of man, and endeavoured to show from several 

 facts, and among others, from his availing 

 himself, even at the outset of his career of 

 labour, of the services of such animals as would 

 assist him by their docility, strength, or in- 

 telligence, or supply him with food and cloth- 

 ing, that a savage condition is alien to his 

 nature. This is emphatically declared by Scrip- 

 ture. "God created man in his own image," 

 and though that image is defaced, it is not 

 obliterated ; nor has he lost that " dominion 

 over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of 

 the air, and over every living thing that 

 moveth upon the earth," with which the Cre- 

 ator invested him. This dominion consists 

 not only in superiority, connected with the 



