WOLF. 
The Wolf, or Canis Lupus of Linnaeus, is 
an animal of universal dread and detestation, 
V. herever it inhabits. The Greeks called it, 
Av.'toj ; and the Romans, Lupus. In Ita- 
lian, it is Lupo ; in Spanish, Lobo ; in Ger- 
man, WolfF; in^ Swedish, Ulf; in Polish, 
Wilk ; and in French, Loup. 
Though dogs often far more resemble the 
Wolf, than each other; and are so internally 
alike, that scarcely any diflerence can be per- 
ceived by the most ingenious anatomist; 
which considerations have induced naturalists 
of the highest celebrity to regard the ^'i^olf as 
the dog in it's original state of savage free- 
dom : that opinion appears, at present, to be 
doubtful; notwithstanding Linna;us, Pennant, 
and others, have classed them in the same ge- 
nus with the Dog. T\\q natural antipathy 
which the two animals bear to each other; 
the longer time which the Wolf goes witli 
young, being u hundred days, while the Dog 
only 
