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* the bull and fhe-als, and is obtained by cover- 

 ' ing the afs with a cow's ilcin, in order to de- 

 ' ceive the bull *.' 



But I am equally doubtful concerning the cx- 

 iftence of all the three kinds of jumars; though 

 1 pretend not to deny the poffibility of the fad. 

 I have even enumerated fome fads which prove 

 an adual copulation between animals of very 

 different fpccies : But their embraces were ineffec- 

 tual. Nothing feems to be more remote from 

 the amiable charadter of the dog than the brutal 

 manners and Inftind of the hog ; and the form 

 of their bodies is as different as their natural dif- 

 pofitions. I have feen, however, two examples 

 of a violent attachment between a dog and a 

 fow. Even during this very fummer 1774, a 

 large fpaniel difcovered a violent paffion for a 

 fow which was in feafon : They were fliut up 

 together for feveral days ; and all the domeftics 

 were witnefTes of the mutual ardour of thefe two 

 animals. The dog exerted many violent efforts 

 to copulate with the fow ; but the difTimilarity 

 of their organs prevented their union "f". The 

 fame thing happened fome years before |. Hence 

 animals, though of very different fpecics, may 

 contra£t a ftrong affedion to each other; for it 

 is certain, that, in the above examples, nothing 

 prevented the union of the dog and fow but the 



conformation 



• Voyage de MeroUe au Congo, eu 1682. 

 f This fai5l happened in the houfe of M. le Comte dc la 

 Feulllee, in Burgundy. 



J At Billy, near Chanceau in Burgundy. 



