of the Wolf, Jackal, and Dog. 265 
of the fame fpecies. The fmelling at the tall has been de« 
fcribed as charafteriftic of the Dog ; but, I believe, it is com- 
mon to mod animals, and only marks the male ; for it is the 
moll: certain way the male has of knowing the female, and 
alfo difclofes another fcent, which is the final intention, whe- 
ther the female is difpofed to receive the male. 
The Efquimaux Dog, and that found among the Indians as 
far fouth as the Cherokees ; the fhepherd’s Dog in Germany, 
called Pomeranian ; the fhepherd’s Dog in Portugal and Spain ; 
have all a ftrong hmilarity to the Wolf and Jackal. 
Buffon, on the origin of Dogs, feems to have pofleffed 
nearly the fame idea ; for he fays the fhepherd’s Dog is the 
original flock from which the different races of Dogs have fprung. 
As the Wolf turns out to be a Dog, it feems aflonifhing, 
that there was 110 account of Dogs being found in America. 
But this I confider as a defedt in the firfl hiffory of that country, 
for there are Wolves ; and I think, in fpite of all that has 
been Paid to the contrary, the Efquimaux and Indian Dog is 
only a variety from a Wolf in that country, which had been 
tamed. Mr. Cameron, of Titchfield-flreet, who was many 
years among the Cherokees, and confiderably to the weflward 
of that country, obferves, that the Dog found there is very 
fimilar to the Wolf; and that the natives confider it to be a 
fpecies of tame Wolf ; but as we come more among the Euro- 
peans who have fettled there, the Dogs are more of a mixed 
breed ; for why they fhould only have had this kind of Dog 
tranfported among them, while every other part of America > 
has the varieties of Europe, is not eafily folved. 
The voice of animals is commonly charadleriftic of the fpe- 
cies ; but I (hould fuppofe, it is only charadleriffic of the 
original fpecies* and not always of the variety, and this . 
4 fuppolition 
