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which qualify them to emit a voice fo fweef 

 and cheerful, fo proper to give notice of 

 their difcoveries to their mafter, as well a? 

 to call together their ftraggling companions,- 

 to unite their forces. 



But there is a queftion or two which have 

 been fometimes put me by my inquilitive' 

 Brethren, to which I think it incumbent 

 upon me in this place to give an anfwer. 



Firfl, I have been alked, what or how 

 many different forts of thefe Animals of 

 Chace were originally created ? What were 

 thofe iirfl: kinds, out of which fo many 

 packs of innumerable fliapes, tongues, fizes, 

 and colours, may be fuppofed to be pro- 

 duced ? 



My anfwer is fhort and plain, yet fome-= 

 thing fuller than the queftions require : 

 That, in my opinion, not only all Hounds 

 or Beagles, but all Dogs whatfoever, even 

 from the terrible Boar Dog to the little 

 Flora, are all one in the firft Creation ; that 

 every virtue and faculty, fize or fliape, 

 which we find or improve in every Dog 

 upon earth, were originally comprehended 

 in the iirlt parents of the fpecies; and that 



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