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the head, the stature, and the hair. They belong 

 almost entu-ely to Europe ; and those in southern 

 locations appear to have reached them in the mi- 

 grations of the earlier Celtas, and subsequent Gothic 

 tribes, Avithout materially altering their look or 

 character. Of these, the first unquestionably is 



THE SHEPHERD'S, OR SHEEP-DOG. 



Cants domesticus. 



PLATE V. 



BuFFON thinks this race, emphatically called the 

 FamiHar and Domestic Dog, the parent stock of 

 the whole species, as to be among those not so 

 fully reclaimed as others, because its ears are 

 still erect ! The sheep-dog is scarcely, if at all, 

 inferior to the Newfoundland dog in natural powers 

 of intellect, and superior to him in that long train- 

 ing to certain duties ^vhich require the utmost 

 sagacity, vigilance, and patience, till it is contended 

 by some that they are become innate. His civili- 

 zation is, no doubt, older than the shepherd state 

 of man ; and we see in his conduct an instinctive 

 impulse of order, and of care, which is strongly im- 



