NATURAL HISTORY 



dislike; for vultures,* and kites, and ravens, 

 and crows, &c. were intended to be mess- 

 mates with dogsf over their carrion ; and 

 seem to be appointed by Nature as fellow- 

 scavengers to remove all cadaverous nui- 

 sances from the face of the earth. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER LIX. 



TO THE SAME. 



THE fossil wood buried in the bogs of 

 Wolmer-forest is not yet all exhausted;. for 

 the peat-cutters now and then stumble upon 

 a log. I have just seen a piece which was 

 sent by a labourer of Oakhanger to a car- 



* Hasselquist, in his Travels to the Levant, observes 

 that the dogs and vultures at Grand Cairo maintain such 

 a friendly intercourse as to bring up their young toge- 

 ther in the same place. 



f The Chinese word for a dog to an European ear 

 sounds like quihloh. 



