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a native of England, when transported into Den- 

 mark, becomes tke little Danish dog ; arid this little 

 Danish dog, sent into the tropical and warm climates, 

 becomes the animal known by the name of the 

 Turkish dog without hair. All these races, with 

 their varieties, are produced by the influence -of 

 climate, joined to the different food, education, and 

 shelter, which they have received among mankind. 

 All other kinds, therefore, may be eousickred as 

 mongrel races ; and as these are extremely nume- 

 rous, and vary much in different countries, it would 

 be almost enddess to mention the whole ; besides, 

 nothing but experience can ascertain the reality of 

 these conjectures, although they have so much the 

 appearance of probability ; and until that gives more 

 certain information, it will not be necessary to enter 

 more minutely into this subject, at least ki this 

 place. 



It was the strong similitude of the dog and the 

 wolf, both externally and internally, that first led 

 some able naturalists to consider them as the same 

 animal, and to regard the wolf as the dog in its 

 savage state of freedom ; however, I believe this 

 opinion is now exploded : The natural antipathy 

 tliese two animals bear to each other; the longer 

 time which the wolf goes with young than the dog 

 (the former going over a hundred days, and the 

 latter about sixty) ; the longer period of life too in 

 the wolf than the dog (the former living more than 



