Sa DOG. Class I. 



or dancing dog, or such as was taught a variety 

 of tricks, and carried about by idle people as a 

 shew. These Degeneres were of no certain shape, 

 being mongrels or mixtures of all kinds of dogs. 



y/e should now, according to our plan, after 

 enumerating the several varieties of British dogs, 

 give its general natural history ; but since 

 LinncEus has already performed it to our hand, 

 we shall adopt his sense, translating his very 

 words (wherever we may) with literal exactness. 



*' The dog eats fiesh, and farinaceous vege- 

 " tables, but not greens : its stomach digests 

 " bones : it uses the tops of grass as a vomit.^^ 

 '' It voids its excrement on a stone : the album 

 " s^TLCcmn is one of the greatest encouragers of 

 " putrefaction. It laps up its drink wdth its 

 " tongue : it voids its urine sideways, by lifting 

 '' up one of its hmd legs ; and is most diuretic 

 " in the company of a strange clog. Odor at 

 " (rniim alteriiis : its scent is most exquisite, 

 " when its nose is moist: it treads lightly on its 

 " toes ; scarcely ever sweats ; but w-hen hot lolls 

 '"' out its tongue. It generally walks frequent- 

 *' ly round the place it intends to lye down on : 

 " its sense of hearing is very quick when asleep : 



* It is not to be supposed that grass acts as an emetic, but 

 merel}^ occasions sickness bv its irritation of \hQ fauces, as when 

 a feather is employed hy mankind for a similar purpose j mixed 

 wlih food it does not produce vomiting. Ed. 



