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DIVISION I. VEKTKBKAL ANIMALS. — CLASS I. JLUIMALIA. 



'Without, flicrufore, recapitulating tlie various arguments adilui'cil in the 

 forciioinii' pages, we arc inclinetl to believe there are sufficient data, to doubt 

 the opinion that tlie ditlerent races of domestic dogs arc all sprung from 

 one species, and that species the wolf or jackal. \\'iieu the intellectual 

 endowments of the domesticated races of dogs are permitted to weigh in the 

 scale, — when we begin to consider the faculties which the b(.)unty of Nature 

 has bestowed upon them, — the sincerity and disinterestedness of their 

 attachment, — the sagacity, strength, velocity, courage, and perfect obedi- 

 ence which they proffer to man, — we cannot refuse our admiration and 

 atiection. To what other species could we look for voluntary association 

 with our fortunes y 'W'hii'h of them would, like the dog, lend us tlie fidl 

 use of senses so acute as his? AN'hich can rejoice in our joy, be vigilant 

 and bold in our defence, oiicdient to our <n-der, faithful in our adversity, 

 understand oiu' least words and signs, and die on our graves from [)ure 

 attaclunent y These ipialities, we all know, dogs pos.sess. Here, then, we 

 find the source of that consideration which is granted them by all men near 

 a state of nature ; and although conceded by them with niggardly hands, 

 the wild man of the ( )lil A\'orl(l, the stnical himtei' of the New, the half- 

 frozen Esipiimaux, anil the savage of Australia, diifer only in their mode 

 of acknowledgment, from the expressions of favor with wliich the drover, the 

 the shepherd, the sportsman, and the fine lady of ci\ilized society regard 

 them. 



As the dog alone, of all the brute creation, voluntarily associates himself 

 witii the cimditious of man's existence, it is fair to presume also that he 

 was the first, and therefore the (eldest of man's companions ; tiiat to his 

 manifold gond (pialities the first himters were indebted for their eou(iucsts 

 and subjugation of otiier species. Vi'q do even now [jcrceive, notwithstand- 

 ing the ad\anee of human reason and the progress of invention, that in a 

 thousand instances we caiuu)t dispense with his assistance. 



The great ad\antage derived from these various powers in dillcrent races 

 of dogs is well a[)prceiated in our state of cixilizatimi, liut still it is not 

 nearly of such importance here as it is among those that journey in the wild 

 I'egions of the worKl. Mr. IJurchell, in his African Tra\els, illustrates this 

 fact no less elegantly than correctly : — 



" Our pack of doi;s," says that enterprising naturalist, " consisted of about 

 five and twenty, of various sorts and sizes. Tiiis variety, tlunigh not alto- 

 gether intentional, as I was obliged to take any that could be procured, was 

 of the greatest service on such an expedition, as I observed that some gave 

 notice of danger in one way and others in another. Some were more 

 dis|iosed to watch against men, and others against wild beasts. Some dis- 

 covered an enemy by their quickness of hearing, others by that of scent ; 



