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or thirty would he a good day’s journey. 
^^0 same number of well-fed dogs, with a 
o^th^^ only five or six hundred pounds, that 
and almost unmanageable, 
Will on a smooth road run any way they 
the rate of ten miles an hour. The 
is 1 a greater number of dogs 
ow' hy no means in proportion to this, 
§ to the imperfect mode already described 
^y^^*^P^oying the strength of these sturdy crea- 
os, and to the more frequent snarling and 
*og occasioned by an increase of numbers.” 
Tb 
0 people of Kamtschatka derive nearly 
the ^snefits from their dogs, and employ 
^ in travelling in the same manner as the 
g ^'^^Haux. Horses are not more useful to 
than these dogs to the inhabitants 
cheerless regions of the north. In the 
storm, when their master cannot 
s^^ij ®yo® open or see the path, they very 
