264 Mr, Hunter’s Obfervations on ihe Species 
will have more of the true character of the genus, and will 
have a Wronger refemblance to the fpecies neared allied to it r 
than any of the other varieties of its own fpecies. 
If we apply this to the Dog, and confider the Fox as a 
didindt fpecies, which there is great reafon to believe it is, that 
variety which has the dronged refemblance to the Fox, is to 
be looked upon as the original of all the others ; which will 
prove to be the Wolf. 
Another mode of confidering this fubjedfc, which is how- 
ever fecondary to the above, is, fuppofing that all animals 
were at fird wild ; and, therefore, that thofe animals which 
remain wild, are the original dock ; and that the further we 
find animals removed from their originals in appearance, they 
are really further removed in confequence of variation taking 
place from cultivation, fo that we may dill be able to trace the 
gradation. What gives lome force to this idea is, that where 
the Dogs have been lead: cultivated, there they dill retain mod 
of their original chara&er, or fimilarity to the Wolf or the 
Jackal, both in fhape and difpofition. Thus the fhepherd’s 
Dog, all over the world, has drongly the chara&er of the 
Wolf or Jackal; fo that but little difference is to be obferved, 
except in fize and hair. Size is, perhaps, a variety taking 
place under a variety of circumdances ; but difference in hair 
is, in general, influenced by climate, although perhaps not 
always fo. Thus the Wolf has longer and fofter hair than 
the Jackal, becaufe he is a more northern animal ; and the 
Jackal and fhepherd’s Dog in Portugal and Spain have fhorter 
and dronger hair than thofe of Germany or Kamchatka, from 
inhabiting warmer climates. But when we confider their ge-* 
neral fhape, the chara&er of countenance, the quick manner 
with the pricked and ered ears, we mud fuppofe them varieties 
of 
