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swered that dogs proceeded from the species in the 
ark, what becomes of the Mongolic, the Negro, and 
the Caucasian man, each escaping to his own moun- 
tains? And in what manner would this reply fix 
the parentage upon a wolf or a jackal only ? 
If domestic dogs were merely wolves modified by 
the influence of man’s wants, surely the curs of 
Mohammedan states, refused domestic care, left to 
roam after their own free will, and only tolerated in 
Asiatic cities in the capacity of scavengers, would 
long since have resumed some of the characters of 
the wolf: there has unquestionably been sufficient 
time for that purpose, since we find allusion made 
to these animals in the laws of Moses; they were 
then already considered unclean, for all cattle wor- 
ried, injured, or not killed as the law prescribed, 
were ordered to be flung to them. We do not 
know how long before the departure of Israel dogs 
may have been held in the same outcast condition 
in Egypt, yet to this day the curs of the Levant 
are in no respect to be mistaken for wolves; and to 
render this fact still more remarkable, the zeed 
abounds in every part of Western Asia, and is 
found on the northern borders of Egypt; he nightly 
visits the haunts of man, and disputes the carrion 
and offals with the curs of the streets. In India 
the case is precisely similar between the indigenous 
wolves (beriah) and the domestic pariahs ; the true 
pariah dog of India being a wild canine chiefly 
established in the woods along the lower ranges of 
the Himalaya mountains, where the wolf is likewise 
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