3 2 Gleanings from the 



situ. Its jaw fhowed it to have been about the 

 fize of an ordinary fhepherd dog. The dog was 

 abundantly reprefented in the Norfolk flint mines 

 known as Grime's Graves. 1 



The dog is met as the trufted friend of man 

 when hiftorical times commence ; thus its com- 

 monnefs precludes much exact mention of it. Its 

 exiftence was taken for granted. Theory, there- 

 fore, flourimes abundantly in connexion with the 

 early hiftory of the dog, and much a pofteriori 

 argument. Such guefles muft be taken obvioufly 

 at their own value. Thus it does not follow that 

 man in his primitive exiftence as a hunter was 

 aided by the fkill and fpeed of dogs, although 

 Pope may find it convenient to fuggeft the notion 

 to our minds by his well-known lines on the 

 " poor Indian " and his dog. Many favage tribes 

 which live by hunting, at the prefent day, never 

 employ dogs. Nor need it necerTarily be fuppofed 

 that the primitive Aryan fettlers in Europe 

 brought dogs with them. Mr. Darwin has paid 

 great attention to the queftion, and as he inclines 

 to believe that different croflings of fome canis 

 primitivus, now loft, with wolves and jackals, may 

 account for the exiftence of the numberlefs modern 

 breeds of the dog, few will venture to contravene 

 his fuppofition. 2 " Many European dogs," he ob- 

 ferves, "much refemble the wolf," and all who 

 have interefted themfelves in this queftion muft 



1 Greenwell's "Britifh Barrows," p. 736; and fee Dawkins's 

 " Early Man in Britain," pp. 87, 217, 304. 



2 See " Plants and Animals under Domeftication," vol. i., 

 cap. i. 



