^90 WOLF. 
fore, toek it into his head to teach him to speak. 
For this purpose he spared neither time nor pains 
Mdth his pupil, who was about three years old 
when this his learned education commenced ; and 
at length he made such a progress in language as 
to be able to articulate no less than thirty words. 
It appears, however^ that he was somewhat of a 
truant^ and did not very willingly exert his ta- 
lents, being rather pressed into the service of 
literature; and it was necessary that the words 
should be first pronounced to him each time, 
which he^ as it were, echoed from his preceptor. 
Leibnitz, however^ attests that he himself heard 
him speak; and the French academicians add, 
thatj unless they had received the testimony of so 
great a man as Leibnitz^ they should scarcely 
have dared to report the circumstance. This 
wonderful Dog was born near Zeitz in Misnia, in 
Saxony. 
WOLF. 
Canis Lupus. C. cauda incurvata. Lin» Sj/6t. Naf.p. 5S, 
Dog with incurvated tail. 
Canis ex griseo flavescens, Briss. Qiiadr.p. 170. 
Lupus. Gesn. Quadr. 634. Aldr. dig. 144. 
Loup. Biiff'. 'j.p.39' P^' I- 
Wolf. Pennant Quadr. 4. p. 248. 
The Wolf is distinguished from the Dog by his 
superior size, stronger limbs, more muscular body^ 
and greater breadth of the upper part of the face. 
