INTRODUCTION. ^7 



swered that dogs proceeded from the species in the 

 ark, what becomes of the Mongolic, the Negro, and 

 the Caucasian man, each escaping to his own moun- 

 tains? And in what manner would this reply fix 

 the parentage upon a wolf or a jackal only? 



If domestic dogs were merely wolves modified by 

 the influence of mans wants, surely the curs of 

 Mohammedan states, refused domestic care, left to 

 roam after their own free will, and only tolerated in 

 Asiatic cities in the capacity of scavengers, would 

 long since have resumed some of the characters of 

 the wolf: there has unquestionably been sufficient 

 time for that purpose, since we find allusion made 

 to these animals in the laws of Moses ; they were 

 then already considered unclean, for all cattle wor- 

 ried, injured, or not killed as the law prescribed, 

 were ordered to be flung to them. We do not 

 know how long before the departure of Israel dogs 

 may have been held in the same outcast condition 

 in Egypt, yet to this day the curs of the Levant 

 are in no respect to be mistaken for wolves ; and to 

 render this fact still more remarkable, the zeeh 

 abounds in every part of Western Asia, and is 

 found on the northern borders of Egypt ; he nightly 

 visits the haunts of man, and disputes the carrion 

 and ofikls with the curs of the streets. In India 

 the case is precisely similar between the indigenous 

 wolves {heriah) and the ^om.Q^t\c pariahs ; the true 

 pariah dog of India being a wild canine chiefly 

 established in the woods along the lower ranges of 

 the Himalaya mountains, where the wolf is likewise 

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