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feet new-made graves, and devour the corpfes how .putrid foever ; to 

 prevent which, the earth over the graves is mixed with thorns. While 

 they are at this dreary work, they exhort each other by a cry, refembling 

 that of children under chaftifement. When they have dug up a body, 

 they (hare it. When they have once tailed human 0c(h, ever after pur- 

 fue mankind : They watch burying-grounds, follow armies and cara- 

 vans. To thefe vultures of quadrupeds, every thing that once had life 

 lecms equally agreeable. 



The jackall that firft fcents fonrve larger beaft, gives notice by a howl, 

 which it repeats as it runs j while all within hearing join the chace 

 and cry, which is fo loud, people can fcarce hear each other fpeak. 

 Often the lion, the tiger, or the panther, follow in filence at fome 

 diftance : The jackall purfues the whole night, keeps up the cry, and 

 with perfeverance tires down its prey j juft at that moment in comes the 

 lion or the leopard, and the jackall muft be content with the remnapt 

 he leaves. Between the jackall and dog is an irreconcileable antipathy, 

 and they never part without an engagement. The jackall is as ftupid as 

 impudent; if one has ftolen filently into an out-houfe, to feize the poul- 

 try, hearing others at a diftance, it anfwers the call, and betrays its own 

 depredations. 



THE 



ISATIS, OR ARCTIC FOX, 



MAY be confidered as between the dog and the fox. Refembles a 

 fox in its form and length of tail ; and a dog, in its head, the 

 polkion of its eyes, and its barking. The hair is foft, fome blue, fome 

 white at one feafon, at another rullet brown. Its hair is two inches lon^y 

 thick, tufted, and gloiTy, yet the under jaw is bare and without any. 



This animal can bear only the coldeft climates, the coafts of the Icy 

 fea, and the great rivers around it; is moftly found in the mountainous 

 and naked regions of Norway, Siberia, and Lapland. Burrows like the 

 fox j fomctimes two or three in a hole, in Groeniand ; v/hen with youno-, 

 the female retires to her kennel in the fame manner. Thefe holes, which 

 are very narrow and extremely deep, have many outlets, arc kept very 



No. 22, M clean. 



