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proaeh this form. The dog of Siberia, Lapland, nd 

 Iceland, of the Cape of Good Hope, of Madagascar, 

 Ca&cut, and Malabar, fe&ve -all a long nose, pricked 

 ears, and resemble the shepherd's dog very nearly. 

 In Guinea the dog very speedily takes this form ; for 

 at the second or third geijeFatkxn the animal forgets 

 to bark, his ears and -his tail become pointed, and his 

 hair drops off, while a -coarser, thinner kind corwes in 

 its place. This sort of dog is -also to be found in the 

 temperate cH mates in great abundance, particularly 

 among those who, preferring usefulness to beauty, 

 employ an animal that requires very little instruction 

 to be serviceable. 



The shepherd's dog, transported into the tem- 

 perate climates, and among people entirely civilised, 

 such as England, France, and Germany, will be 

 divested of his savage air, his pricked ears, his rough, 

 long, and thick hair ; and from the influence of 

 climate and food alone, will become either a matin, 

 a mastiff, or a hound : these three seem to be the 

 immediate descendants of the former, and from them 

 the other varieties have been produced. 



The gray matin hound, which is in the second 

 branch, transported to the North, becomes the great 

 Danish dog; and this, sent to the South, becomes 

 the greyhound of different sizes. The same, trans- 

 ported into Ireland, the Ukraine, Tartary, Epirus, 

 and Albania, becomes the great wolf dog, known by 

 the name of the Irish wolf dog. 



The mastiff, which is the third branch, and chiefly 



