ORIGIN OF THE DOG. 3 



other countries, form the most cogent evidence of the primary 

 creation of several distinct types of the dog, similar to what 

 we see in other animals and birds, and it is in vain for natur- 

 alists like Bell, Buffon, Hunter and others, however able and 

 specious as writers to try to construct a progressive hypothet- 

 ical order of origin of species, to suit their own preconceived 

 views, in spite and defiance of the manifest non-mutability of 

 original types, and the opposition of nature, to violence offered 

 to her laws. 



The possibility of producing mules and hybrids is quite a 

 different matter and their fertility or sterility does not really 

 effect the question of original distinction of species in such 

 animals as the dog, hyaena, wolf, and jackal, or the sheep, 

 goat, ibex, and similar species, and it is just possible that a 

 cross between the dog and hyaena, wolf or jackal, runs in the 

 veins of some breeds of the dog. 



Pallas, the celebrated naturalist, who visited London in 

 1761, held the theory that the mastiff was derived from the 

 hyaena ; and Burchell also supports the same. 



Lowe in his domestic animals of Great Britain, held that 

 it was very possible that the blood of a hyaena cross, runs in 

 the veins of the mastiff, and the striped or brindle markings, 

 short blunt head and powerful jaws, are not at all unfavour- 

 able to such an idea, although the dentition of the hyaena is 

 very different from that of the dog and wolf. 



Aristotle mentions the canis Indices, Indian dogs, stating 

 them to be a hybrid between the dog and tiger " Indi coitus 

 tcmporc in saltibus canes foe minus reliqunt nt cii'n his tigridcs cifaut : 

 quorum cxprimnes concept its ab nimiam fcritatem, inutilis partns jiidi- 

 cant ; itemquc sccundos, scd Urtios cducaut." Lucretius (Dc vcnim 



