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dog : whence such a variety of descendants is no easy mat- 

 ter to determine : the shepherd's the primitive animal of 

 his kind: those wild in America and Congo, as those of 

 Siberia, Lapland, Iceland, of the Cape of Good Hope, of 

 Madagascar, Calicut, and Malabar, resemble the shep- 

 herd's dog : those in Guinea, at the second or third gene- 

 ration, forget to bark : dogs of Albany, of Greece, of Den- 

 mark, and of Ireland, larger and stronger than any other : 

 shepherd's dog, transported into temperate climates, and 

 among people entirely civilized, from influence of climate 

 and food alone, become a matin, a mastiff, or a hound : 

 Turkish dog ; great Danish dog ; great Irish Wolf dog ; 

 the little Danish dog ; their variety now in England much 

 greater than in the time of queen Elizabeth ; Dr Caius 

 divides the whole race into three kinds, the generous, the 

 farm kind, the mongrel, 9, &c. Three shepherd's dogs 

 reckoned a match for a bear, and four for a lion ; three of 

 them overcame a lion in the time of King James the First ; 

 the famous poet, Lord Surrey, the first who taught dogs to 

 set ; the pug dog ; the English bull dog ; the lion dog ; 

 originally from Malta ; its description ; the Molossian dogs 

 of the ancients, according to M. Buffon ; Epirotic dogs, 

 mentioned by Pliny ; Indian dogs, mentioned by JElian ; 

 his description of a combat between a dog and a lion ; the 

 bravest of the kind ; the nobler kind of dogs, of which such 

 beautiful ancient descriptions, now utterly unknown, 12. 

 Puppies' eyes not open till ten or twelve days old ; dog's 

 teeth amount to forty-two ; this animal capable of re-pro- 

 ducing at the age of twelve months ; goes nine weeks with 

 young, and lives about twelve years ; other particulars con- 

 cerning dogs ; many kinds of birds the dogs will not touch ; 

 dogs and vultures living wild about Grand Cairo in 

 Egypt, continue together in an amicable manner, and are 

 known to bring up their young in the same nest ; dogs bear 

 hunger for a long time ; a bitch, forgotten in a country- 

 house, lived forty days without any other sustenance than 

 the wool of a quilt she had torn in pieces, 28. The wild, 

 hunt in packs ; unknown, such as he was before the pro- 

 tection of man ; some, from a domestic state, have turned 

 savage, and partaken of the disposition of the wolf, and at- 

 tack the most formidable animals of the forest ; are easily 

 tamed, and quickly become familiar and submissive, 6. Ex- 

 periments to prove the wolf and the fox not of the same 

 nature with the dog, but of a species perfectly distinct ; 

 animals in this country bred between a dog and a fox, 25. 

 A dog set at liberty, in his savage fury flew upon every 

 animal, fowls, dogs, and men, 27. The dog and wolf so 

 much alike internally, that anatomists can scarce perceive 

 the difference ; a young dog shudders at the sight of a 



