ADAPTATION TO WANTS. 



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or in putting them to such work as they are by the pecul- 

 iarity of their nature best adapted. 



In the first place, we see there is a singular adaptation 

 in all the domestic animals to the locations and sections of 

 country in which we find them, and to the wants of the 

 people in those parts. In the extreme North, where no 

 other domestic animal could live, we find a dog of peculiar 



FIG. 82. The stallion, Godolphin Arabian. 



nature, adapted to the wants of the Esquimaux as a beast 

 of burden, fisherman, hunter, &c., and able to subsist on 

 the scantiest fare of fish. A little farther south, the Lap- 

 landers have the reindeer, which not only thrives on the 

 moss peculiar to that region, but supplies the people with 

 subsistence in the way of milk, butter, and cheese. He 

 travels with rapidity long distances, drawing a sledge over 

 the frozen ground, easily guided and controlled by the Lap- 

 lander as he sits behind. His skin makes the best of cloth- 

 ing, while the flesh is indispensable for food. 



