in the Paris Gazette may be trusted, he was 
known to have destroyed at least twenty persons, 
chiefly women and children. With the usual ag- 
gravation of popular description, he was repre- 
sented by some who had seen him, as far surpass- 
ing in size the rest of his species, and striped 
somewhat in the manner of a tiger. Public 
prayers were said to hav^e been offered up for his 
destruction. 
The time of gestation in the Wolf is (according 
to Buffon) about three months and a half ; and the 
young whelps are found from the end of April to 
the beginning of July ; and this difference in the 
time of gestation, which in the Wolf is 100 days, 
and in the Dog only 60, he considers as a proof 
of the real difference between the two species. 
Notwithstanding the savage nature of the Wolf, 
he is still capable, when taken young, of being 
tamed. A remarkable instance of this is said to 
have been exhibited in a Wolf belonging to the 
late Sir Ashton Lever, which was, by proper edu- 
cation, entirely divested of the ferocious charac- 
ter of its species. 
