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262 Mr . Hunter’s Obfervations on the Species 
I took this puppy into the country, and chained it up near 3 
maftiff Dog, and they were very familiar, and feemingly fond 
of each other. When the Bitch became firft in heat, I could 
not get a proper Dog for her; but the latter end of September 
being again in the fame fituation, feveral Dogs were procured* 
and left with her. They appeared indifferent about her, pro- 
bably from being in a ftrange place ; and fhe did not feem in- 
clined to be familiar with them ; whether the great Dog might 
be able to line her I do not know ; fhe was, however, twice 
tied by a Tarrier on the 3d of October. In a few weeks fhe 
was evidently become bigger ; and on the 30th of November, 
in all fifty-nine days, fhe brought forth five puppies. Some 
days before this period fhe dug a hole under ground, by the 
fide of her kennel, in which fhe brought forth, and it was 
fome time before floe would allow the puppies to flay in the 
kennel when put there. In about eight days fome, and nine 
days others of them began to open their eyelids. 
Here then is an abfolute proof of the Jackal being a Dog ; 
and it appears to me, that the Wolf is equally made out to be 
of the fame fpecies. It now then becomes a queftion, whe- 
ther the Wolf is from the Jackal, or the Jackal from the 
Wolf, fuppofing they had but one origin ? From the fuppofi- 
tion, that varieties become more tame in their nature, we 
fhould be led to believe, the Wolf to be the original, and that 
the Jackal was a ffep towards civilifation in that fpecies of 
animal. There are Wolves of various kinds, each country 
having a Wolf peculiar to itfeif; but the Jackals that I have 
feen have been more uniformly the fame, both thofe from 
Africa, and thofe from the Eaft-Indies. I am informed, how- 
ever, that they vary in fize. Whether all the Wolves of dif- 
ferent countries are of one fpecies, or fome of them only of the 
fame 
