CEYLONESE DOG. 
liging as to communicate to me a note, with 
regard to the Wild Dogs found in the envi- 
rons of the Cape of Good Hope. He re- 
marks that, at the Cape, there are numerous 
packs of Wild Dogs, as large as our largest 
kinds, whose skin is marked with various co- 
lours. Tliey have ere6l ears, run with great 
swiftness, have no .fixed residence, and destroy; 
an incredible number of Deer. They are 
s,eldom killed; and are very difficult to be 
taken in snares, having an aversion to approach 
any thing which has been touched by Alan. 
As their young are sometimes met with in 
the woods, attempts have been made to render 
them domestic ; but they are so large, and 
so ferocious, that these attempts have always 
proved abortive." 
It seems likely, however, that even these 
Cape Dogs may be tamed, by the arts and per- 
severance of Europeans: still they afford a 
strong exception to the general rule, tliat Dogs 
are domesticated with great facility. I'lie 
Ceylo-nese Dog, though wild, is probably of 
a more tameable nature. 
