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of very violent feelings, and on such occasions is capable 

 of acting with equal promptness and energy. The senti- 

 ments, indeed, which it manifests, however opposite in 

 their nature, are all of a violent character : its hatred and 

 its affection are both equally strong. An individual of this 

 species, described by M. F. Cuvier, showed the utmost 

 confidence in all its keepers ; and for one in particular, 

 evinced an affection very unusual in wild animals, and 

 parallel to nothing but what we witness daily in the common 

 domestic Dog. On the other hand, his hatred was ex- 

 tremely violent, and he often would exhibit excessive rage 

 against persons who had done him no kind of injury. On 

 such occasions he would tremble with rage, the foam would 

 issue in abundance from his mouth, the hairs of his back 

 would bristle up, and blows had no other effect than to ex- 

 asperate his anger. He was taken very young at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, and had been tamed without difficulty. On 

 his arrival in France, his cage having been left partly 

 open, he walked out, and went away before he was ob- 

 served. As soon as his flight was known, his keepers 

 went to take him, and saw him enter the cottage of a 

 peasant very quietly, where he suffered himself to be re- 

 taken without the least opposition. This docility is not 

 peculiar to some individuals of this species, but common to 

 all. Barrow informs us, in his journey to the Cape, that 

 the Spotted Hyaena has been tamed in the district of 

 Schneuburg, where it is considered more serviceable for 

 the chase than the Dog, and fully equal to that animal in 

 intelligence and fidelity. The relations between the Hyaena 

 and Dog, led Linnaeus to class them together in the same 

 genus, but a more attentive examination has shewn, that 

 the Hyaenas form a genus in themselves, as distinct and 

 natural as that of the Dogs. Their molars are five in 

 number, in the upper jaw: three false ones, one car- 

 nivorous, and one tuberculous. Four only in the lower: 



