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 THE WOLF. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Six cutting teeth and two canine in each jaw. 



Five toes before ; four behind. 



Long vifage. Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Pale~'ye]lowifli brown dog with incurvated tail. 

 Wolf. Pennant, ^adn 231. 



Le Loup. De Buffon. 7. 39. /. i. 



TH E rapacity and gloomy dilpofition of the Wolf have in a 1 ages 

 rendered it the averfion of mankind ; and the devaftation which it 

 occafionally commits has made it ncceflary to exert every artifice by which 

 it may meet its deftrudion. In Norway a fmgular method is frequently prac- 

 tifed with fuccefs. A fpecies of lichen or tree-mols (Lichen vulpinus Lin.) 

 is pounded and mixed with powdered glafs. With this compofition the car- 

 cafes of animals are fluffed, and left in proper places to be*^iicovered by 

 the wolves. The indifcriminating voracity of the wolf is fuch, that when 

 prefTed by hunger it will devour a variety of fubflances even not of an animal 

 nature. Seduced by the external appearance of the carcafe, they devour the 

 whole, and are in confequence deftroyed. 



The 



