THE DOff. 



tlifftn lie conceived a considerable degree of afiection, or respect 

 perhaps, for suhm/ission was the most striking feature of his 

 conduct towards them, and was, doubtless, induced by the fre- 

 quent and substantial castigations he received. He never, it is 

 true, exactly dared to attack me in front, but he once showed 

 a disposition to do so, when I pulled him down by the tail as 

 he was endeavouring to get over the garden-wall. He, how- 

 ever, on several occasions charged at me from behind, when he 

 thought my attention was otherwise engaged. He once only 

 succeeded in inflicting a severe bite ; and as by this time I had 

 utterly despaired of making anything of him, — ^he was about 

 eighteen months old, — I sent him about his business. He 

 subsequently fell into the hands of a showman, and assumed 

 his proper character in the caravan. 



" How does it happen that the dog is to be met with in 

 every quarter of the globe to which man has penetrated, while 

 the true wolf has never yet been met with south of the equator P 

 ^Further, are not several distinct species of wolf admitted to 

 exist? Is there not more than one distinct species of woU 

 admitted by naturalists to exist in Korth America alone P It 

 has not even been attempted to be proved that these species 

 are identical ; their distinctness has been more than tacitly 

 admitted. Tet they resemble each other far more closely than 

 any wolf does the dog. Has the dog, then, been derived from 

 each and all of these wolves ; or has the original wolf, origin 

 alike of wolf and dog, been yet properly indicated ? Should 

 not this fact be duly ascertained prior to that in question ? " 



In a note to his translation of Cuvier's " Regne Animal," 

 Mr. Blyth thus expresses his opinion respecting the domestic 

 dog's origin : — 



" If the idea, which I conceive there is every reason to enter- 

 tain, respecting the origin of the domestic dog be well founded,, 

 it is clear that a recurrence to a single wild type would be im- 

 possible. The dog is apparently a blended race, derived prin- 

 cipally from the wolf, and partly from various other allied 

 species. In the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, 

 there is a specimen of an Esquimaux dog (0. rvuhilus), which 

 resembles the large American wolf so closely, that there can 

 scarcely be any doubt of the connexion which subsists between 

 them ; and it is well known, of the Ameifcan wolves in parti- 

 cular, that if a young animal be surprised by a hunter, and 

 suddenly menaced by his voice and manner, it will crouch to 

 him and implore his mercy in precisely the manner of a spa- 



