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collections from Schams and elsewhere that the small race of swine Sus 

 scrofa, var. palustris, existed there as a wild race ; and coupling this 

 with the facts, on the one side, of the exceeding readiness with which 

 this species lends itself to domestication, and on the other side, of the 

 considerable difficulties which attend its transport over great distances in 

 space, I incline to think that this animal may have had a different history 

 from the others just mentioned, and may have been domesticated upon 

 the spot. 



