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canines are investigated; and although the author’s object 
was not to question the single or plural view of the parentage 
of domestic dogs, and his argument occasionally seems to lean 
to the former opinion, yet we claim many of his facts ard 
reasons as confirming the latter. Want of space forbids these 
being reproduced here in the form of quotations, and con- 
densation wonld only garble and do thei injustice ; we there- 
fore refer to the original, particularly the Nos. x. xi. and xii. 
