OF M U L It S. 



and {he brought forth her young on the fixth 

 <^ay of June at eight o'clock in the morning. 

 Hence the time of her geftation was feventy- 

 three days. The young were four in number, 

 and of a blackiih colour. Some of them have 

 the half of the breaft, and the pats, white. 

 Thefe colours are derived from the dog, which 

 is black and white. From the moment of lit- 

 tering, fhe growled and attacked all who ap- 

 proached her. She no longer dirtinguiflied her 

 mafters ; and would even have devoured the 

 dog, if he had come near her. 

 ' I add, that ihe has been chained ever fince 

 flie made a break at her gallant, who had leap- 

 ed a neighbouiing wall, in order to come at a 

 bitch in feafon ; that fiie nearly worried her ri- 

 val ; and that the coachman feparated them by 

 repeated blows of a large bludgeon, and con- 

 duced her to her lodge, where, imprudently 

 commencing his chaftifement, her fury rofe to 

 fuch a degree, that flie bit him twice in the 

 thigh, and the w^ounds confined him fix weeks 

 to his bed.* 



In my anfwer to this letter, I thanked M. de 

 Boifly, and added feme remarks, with a view to 

 remove my doubts. M. le Marquis de Spon- 

 tin having feen my anfwer, obligingly wrote 

 me in the following terms : 



' Namur, July 14. 1773. I read with much 

 « fatisfaftion the judicious remarks you tranf- 

 ■ mitted to M. Surirey de Boifly, whom I had 



' begged 



