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animal will produce with the dog kind ; which may 
be well founded ; fince it has been proved that the 
congenerous wolf will*. Mr. Brook, animal-mer- 
chant in Holborn, turned a wolf te a Pomeranian. 
bitch then in heat: the congrefs was immediate, 
with the circumf{tances ufual with the canine fpecies. 
The bitch brought ten whelps, one of which I 
afterwards faw at the Duke of Gordons in Scotland. 
It bore a great refemblance to the male parent, and 
had much of its nature: being flipped at a weak 
deer, it inftantly caught at the animal’s throat and 
killed it. The fox fleeps much in the day, but 
is in motion the whole night in fearch of prey. It 
will feed on fcfh of any kind, but its favourite food 
is lambs, rabbets, hares, poultry, and feathered 
came. It will, when urged by hunger, eat carrots 
and infects; and thofe that live near the fea-coafts, 
will, for want of other food, eat crabs, fhrimps, or 
* M. de Buffon afferts the contrary, and gives the following 
account of the experiment he had made. ex fis garder trois 
pendant deux on:, une femelle SF deux males :- on tenta inutilement 
de les faires accoupler avec des chiennes; quoiqu’ils n’euffent jamais 
wit de femelle de leur efpece, et qu’ils paruffent preffés du befoin de 
jouir, ils ne pirent sy determiner, ils refuferent toutes les chiennes, 
mais des qu’on leur prefenta leur femelle légitime, ils la couvrirent, 
guoigu enchainés, et elle produifit quatre petits, Hift. Naturelle, vii, 
81, The fame experiments were tried with a bitch and a male 
fox, and with a dog and a female wolf, and as M. de Buffon 
fays with the fame ill fuccefs. Vol. v. z10, 212. but the 
faci juit cited, proves the poffibility paft conteft. 
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