DOG. 
less, to particularize with scrupulous minuteness 
all the differences of this varying race. The 
principal varieties are well figured in the Couut 
de Buffon's Natural History, and are copied into 
Mr. SmeUie's translation of that elegant work. 
In the present pubhcation, solicitous to introduce 
figures of the rarer animals, rather than of such 
as are well known, we have admitted only the 
Shepherd's Dog, the Dingo or Australasian Dog, 
and the Irish Greyhound^, as elucidations of the 
species. 
The linnasan specific character of the Dog, 
viz. that the tail hangs or turns towards the left, 
has frequently excited the ridicule of those who 
wish to lessen the merit of the great and accu- 
rate Northern Naturalist. It is^ indeed, undeni- 
able, that the character above mentioned is not 
always distinctly perceivable ; yet it seems to be a 
more predominating particularity than any other, 
when applied to the whole race or species in ge- 
neral. 
It would be unnecessary to dwell on the parti- 
cular uses and qualities of this animal. Every one 
knows that the Dog, when properly educated, is 
the most faithful of quadrupeds, and the most 
devoted to the service of mankind. The 
Dog (says BufFon) , independent of the beauty of 
his form, his vivacity, force, and swiftness, is 
possessed of all those internal qualifications that 
can conciliate the affections of man, and make 
the tyrant a protector. A natural share of cou- 
rage, an angry and ferocious disposition, ren- 
