J22 NATURAL HISTORY 



dislike; for vultures,* and kites, and ravens, 

 and crows, &c. were intended to be mess- 

 mates with dogsl over their carrion ; and 

 seem to be appointed by Nature as fellow- 

 scavengers to remove all cadaverous nui- 

 sances from the face of the earth. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER LIX. 



TO THE SAME. 



The fossil wood buried in the bogs of 

 Wolmer-forest is not yet all exhausted ; for 

 the peat-cutterj5 now and then stumble upon 

 a log. I have just seen a piece which was 

 sent by a labourer of Oakhanger to a car- 



* Hasselquist, in his Travels to the Levantj 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. 



t The Chinese word for a dog to an European ear 

 sounds like quihloh. 



