2.90 WOLF. 



fore, took it into his head to teach him to speak. 

 For this purpose he spared neither time nor pains 

 with his pupil, who was about three years old 

 when this his learned education commenced ; and, 

 at length he made such a progress in language as 

 to be able to articulate no less than thirty words. 

 It appears, however,, that he was somewhat of a 

 truant, and did not very willingly exert his ta- 

 lents, being rather pressed into the service of 

 literature; and it was necessary that the words 

 should be first pronounced to him each time, 

 which he, as it were, echoed from his preceptor. 

 Leibnitz, however, attests that he himself heard 

 him speak; and the French academicians add, 

 that, unless they had received the testimony of so 

 great a man as Leibnitz, they should scarcely 

 have dared to report the circumstance. This 

 wonderful Dog was born near Zeitz in Misnia, in 

 Saxony. 



WOLF. 



Canis Lupus. C. cauda incurcata. Lin. Si/st. Nat. p. 58. 



Dog with incurvated tail. 



Canis ex griseo flavescens Briss. Quadr.p. 170. 



Lupus. Gcsn. Qiiadr. 634. Aldr. dig. 144. 



Loup. Biff. 7. p. 39. pi. i. 



Wolf. Pennant Quadr. 4. p. 248. 



THE Wolf is distinguished from the Dog by his 

 superior size, stronger limbs, more muscular body, 

 and greater breadth of the upper part of the face, 



