ANIMALS OF THE 



tic call ; the only one who seems to understand 

 the nature of subordination, and seeks assistance ; 

 the only one who, when he misses his master, 

 testifies his loss by his complaints ; the only one 

 who, carried to a distant place, can find the way 

 home; the only one whose natural talents are 

 evident, and whose education is always successful. 

 In the same manner, as the dog is of the most 

 complying disposition, so also is it the most sus- 

 ceptible of change in its form ; the varieties of 

 this animal being too many for even the most 

 careful describer to mention. The climate, the 

 food, and the education, all make strong impres- 

 sions upon the animal, and produce alterations in 

 its shape, its colour, its hair, its size, and in every 

 thing but its nature. The same dog, taken from 

 one climate, and brought to another, seems to 

 become another animal ; but different breeds are 

 as much separated, to all appearance, as any two 

 animals the most distinct in nature. Nothing 

 appears to continue constant with them, but their 

 internal conformation ; different in the figure of 

 the body, in the length of the nose, in the shape 

 of the head, in the length and the direction of 

 the ears and tail, in the colour, the quality, and 

 the quantity of the hair ; in short, different in 

 every thing but that make of the parts which 

 serve to continue the species, and keep the ani- 

 mal distinct from all others. It is this peculiar 

 conformation, this power of producing an animal 

 that can reproduce, that marks the kind, and 

 approximates forms that at first sight seem never 

 made for conjunction. 



