of the Wolf, Jackal, and Dog. 255 
&ems to have been about the year 1766. A Pomeranian Bitch 
of Mr. Brookes’s, in the New Road, was lined only once by 
a Wolf, and brought forth a litter of nine healthy puppies. 
The veracity of Mr. Brookes is not to be doubted, refpc£ting 
the Bitch being lined by a Wolf ; yet, as it was poflible die 
might have been lined by fome common Dog without his 
knowledge, the faft was not clearly made out ; but it has 
been fince afcertained, that the Dog and Wolf will breed. 
Several noblemen and gentlemen bought fome of the puppies, 
as 1 was informed by Mr, Brookes. My Lcrd Clanbras.-il 
purchafed a Bitch-puppy; and Mr. Brookes prefen ted one to 
me, which I kept for obfervations and experiment. Its aftions 
were not truly thofe of a Dog ; it had more quicknefs in 
attending to things, was more eafily Bartled, as if parti- 
cularly apprehenfive of danger, quicker in tranfitions from one 
aftion to another, not fo ready to the call, being lefs docile ; 
and from thefe peculiarities it loft its life, being ftoned to death 
in the ftreets for a mad dog. 
Hearing that Lord Clanbr assil’s Bitch had bred, Sir 
Joseph Banks was fo obliging as, at my requeft, to w r rite to 
his Lordfhip, who fent the following account. 
S I R, 
About feventeen or eighteen years ago, the late Lord Mont - 
hermer and I happened to fee a Dog-wolf at Mr. Brookes’s, 
who deals in animals, and lives in the New Road. The ani* 
mal was remarkably tame ; and it ftruck us, for that reafon, 
that a breed might be procured between him and a Bitch. 
We promifed Mr. Brookes a good price for puppies, if h,e 
fucceeded. In about a year a Bitch produced nine, and Lord 
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