THE COMMON GREYHOUND. 



The Dog is a very difFufed animal ; it is found in fome variety or other 

 all over the known world ; in South America multitudes of them breed 

 in holes like Rabbits : when thefe are found young, they inltantly attach 

 themfelves to mankind, and never again defert their mailers to rejoin the 

 fociety of . the wild Dogs, from which they fprang(A)." Thofe Dogs have 

 the appearance of the Greyhound, carry their ears erecl:, are very vigilant, 

 and excellent in the chace(B). 



It appears by the accounts of Captain Cook and other late voyagers, that 

 the nelh of the Dog is eaten by the natives of the South Sea Iflands, who 

 conlider it as a great delicacy ; but the Dogs which are deflined to be eaten, 

 are not fuffered to feed at large, but are kept up and fattened with 

 farinaceous diet, by which treatment they lofe the llrong fmell fo difagreeable 

 in Dogs fufFered to feed at large. 



The ingenious Count de Buffbn fays, that all Dogs are derived from one 

 original, which he calls Le Chien de Berger, or Shepherds' Dog ; which is 

 alfo fometimes called Le Chien-Loup, or the Wolf-Dog ; and the reafon he 

 gives for this opinion is, that this Dog is naturally the moft fenlible of any. 

 He fays the amazing varieties with which we are acquainted are the refult 

 of climate, food, and crofs breeding ; and has given an ingenious genealogical 

 table, in which he afcertains the refults of the different combinations, to 

 which we beg to refer the more curious reader. 



(a) Narrative of the Diftreffes of Ifaac Morris, &c. belonging to the Wager ftore-fhip of Commodore 

 Anfon's fquadron, p. 27, &c. quoted by Mr. Pennant. 



(b) Pennant. 



