WOLF. 
The Wolf is sometimes aifected with madness, 
attended with similar appearances to those exhi- 
bited in that state by the Dog, and productive of 
the same symptoms in consequence of its bite: 
this disease is said to happen to them in the depth 
of winter, and, therefore, as Mr. Pennant ob- 
serves, can never be attributed to the rage of the 
dog-days. Wolves^ in the northern parts of the 
world, sometimes^ during the spring, get on the 
ice of the sea, in order to prey on young seals, 
which they catch asleep; but this repast some- 
times proves fatal to them ; for the ice, detached 
from the shore, carries them to a great distance 
from the land, before they are sensible of it. It 
is said that in some years a large district is by 
this means delivered from these pernicious beasts, 
which are heard howling in a most dreadful man- 
ner far in the sea. 
The Wolf (says Buffon) is one of those ani- 
mals whose carnivorous appetite is the strongest. 
Though he has received from Nature the means 
of gratifying his taste, though she has bestowed 
on him arms, craftiness, strength, agility, and 
every thing necessary for discovering, seizing, 
conquering, and devouring his prey, yet he often 
dies of hunger; because men have declared war 
against him, put a pric0 on his head, and forced 
him to fly to the forests, where he finds only a 
few species of wild animals, who escape from him 
by the SMdftness of their course, and whom he 
cannot surprise but by tehance^ or by a patient 
and often fruitless attendance at those places to 
