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The head, throat, chest, and fore paws of this are white, 

 but sprinkled, as it were, with individual brown hairs. 



We now proceed to the Baron's subdivision of Carnivora, 

 with two tuberculous teeth on each side, at the back of 

 the upper jaw. 



The first subgenus of this division is that of the Dogs 

 {Cards.) 



It is not without considerable hesitation that we venture 

 to append any observations on the canine race. Had we 

 temerity to go to the task with the view of even self satis- 

 faction in the execution of it, at least a volume in the stead 

 of a few pages must be devoted to the subject. 



Without disturbing the integrity of the entire species, 

 its countless varieties all well deserve an accurate physical 

 demonstration. Without pretending to attribute to the 

 mere brute, even in specie, the powers of mind which dis- 

 tinguish mankind, the intellectual sagacity of the race, 

 with its endless modifications, challenge a strict investiga- 

 tion. 



Almost every nation of the earth, intertropical, tempe- 

 rate, and polar, possesses its own peculiar variety of the 

 Dog ; the theatre of observation, therefore, is the world 

 itself, and anything like a description of the whole race 

 would require a much more intimate knowledge of the sur- 

 face of the earth than is at present obtained. 



The intelligence and moral qualities of the Dog, which 

 it possesses in common with the rest of the class, though 

 much greater in degree, form a subject perfectly impene- 

 trable by our limited faculties ; we contemplate the effect 

 but can by no means arrive at the cause ; we may speculate 

 and conjecture, but can never demonstrate. 



It would, indeed, be no difficult task to collect a great 

 number of anecdotes of the Dog, highly amusing in them- 



