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of Asia, India, Persia, Arabia, and Great 
Tjirtary ; about Mount Caucasus, Syria, and 
the Holy-Land ; and most parts of Africa, from 
Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope. 
** These animals have so much thfe nature 
of E>o^s, as to give reasonable cause to ima- 
gine that they are, at least, the chief stock 
from which has sprung the various races of 
those domestic animals. When taken yoimg, 
they grow instantly tame ; attach themselves 
to mankind; wag their tails; love to be 
fondled ; distinguish their masters from others ; 
will come, when called by the name given to 
them ; leap on the table, on being encouraged 
so to do ; drink by lapping ; eje6l their urine 
sideways, with the leg lifted up ; void hard 
excrement ; su:iell to each other ; and remain 
united in copulation. When they see Dogs, 
instead of flying, tliey seek and play with 
tt <em ; they eat bread eagerly, thougli in a wild 
state they are carnivorous ; and have a great 
r'-semblance to the Calmuc Dogs, which per- 
lu'.ps were but a few descents removed from 
the wild kinds. Our Dogs are probably de- 
rived from those reclaimed in the first ages of 
the 
