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abundant. Yet none of these dogs have assumed 
its aspect ; nor have they mixed, further south, with 
jackals, equally numerous; nor, in the wildernesses 
of the western coast, with the dhole. Their several 
voices are not to be mistaken, and the name pariah, 
or rather pahariah (which it is true Europeans give 
to the curs of India, domesticated or half wild), 
denotes nevertheless a being of the mountains, one 
residing in the woods, and is applied by the Hindoos 
to a wild race of aboriginal inhabitants, as well as 
to wild dogs. 
These considerations must have presented them- 
selves to both G. and F. Cuvier, as well as to other 
naturalists, for the Baron did not point out the wolf 
or any other wild animal as parent of the domestic 
races; he merely notices the greater approximation 
of the jackal, and inclined to one or more species 
being absorbed in the domestic dogs as we now find 
them. At least this was our impression when some 
of the foregoing arguments were submitted by us to 
provoke an opinion. Both he, and more particu- 
larly his brother, have pointed out the importance 
of studying the intellectual character or moral in- 
stincts of the species, as a method too much neglec- 
ted, and in this instance of the first importance. It 
may however be doubted in what manner such an 
inquiry could be carried on with sufficient inductive 
foundation, when it is considered that we have no 
other instance of a similar nature to guide us, and 
that it would embrace the estimate of gradual mo- 
dification by domestication, through a period of 
