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and indeed there may be somewhat of providential instinct 

 in this circumstance of dislike ; for vultures, 1 and kites, and 

 ravens, and crows, &c., were intended to be messmates 

 with dogs 2 over their carrion ; and seem to be appointed 

 by Nature as fellow-scavengers to remove all cadaverous 

 nuisances from the face of the earth. I am, &c. 



1 ffasselquist, in his Travels to the Levant, observes that the dogs and 

 vultures at Grand Cairo maintain such a friendly intercourse as to bring up their 

 young together in the same place. [G. W.] 



2 The Chinese word for a dog to an Etiropean ear sounds like quihloh. 

 [G. W.] 



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