THE WOLF. 



Generic Characters. 

 Two canine, and fix cutting teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes before, four behind. 

 Vifage long. 



Synonims. 

 Canis Lupus, Linn. Syjt. 58. 

 Wolf, Brit. Zoo I. 1. Ol. tab. i. 

 Lupus, Gefner Quad. 634, Raii Syn. Quad. 1 70. 

 Canis ex griseo Flavescens, Brijfon Quad. 173. 

 Le Loup, de Buffon, vii. 39. tab. i. 

 Canis Sylvestris, Rzackinfky Hift. Polon. p. 219, 



ALTHOUGH the Wolf fo much refembles the Dog, both in his external 

 and internal form, as to induce fome naturaliits to coniider him as the fame 

 animal, in its favage Hate of freedom, yet no two animals can have a llronger 

 antipathy to each other ; the fight, and even the fcent of a Wolf, makes a 

 young Dog Ihudder, and come trembling to his matter for protection. The 

 Dog and the Wolf never meet without either flying or fighting, and the 

 combat generally ends in the death of one or both ; if the Wolf conquer, he 

 tears and devours his adverfary ; the Dog, more generous, contents himfelf 

 with the victory, and leaves his enemy where he falls, equally defpifed and 

 hated. In iliort the Wolf feems to pollefs all the bad qualities of the Dog, 

 without any of his good ones. 



The Wolf is about three feet feven inches in length, from the tip of his 

 nofe to the infertion of his tail, and about two feet five inches high. His 

 eyes are fituated more obliquely in his head than thofe of the Dog, and his 



