NATURAL HISTORY. 
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animals of the DOG KIND. 
T H E dog, next to the elephant, is the 
moft, intelligent and friendly to man, of 
all quadrupeds. Its feeins beyond the power 
of ill ufage to alienate hisaffeftions from hu- 
man nature. His beauty, fwiftnefs, vivaci- 
ty, courage, fidelity, docility, and watch- 
fulnefs, render him moft endearing to man. 
When in his domeftic ftate, his firft ambiti- 
on and greateft fatisfaftion, is to ^ pleafe : 
he is more humble through affeftion than 
fervility ; he waits his orders, and moft im- 
plicitly obeys them. Friendly without in- 
terefts, and grateful for the flighteft favours, 
he fooner forgets injuries than benefits; his 
only aim is to ferve, never to difpleafe. 
Numbers of dogs are found wild, or ra- 
ther without mafters, in Cougs, Lower E- 
thiopia, and towards the Cape of Good 
Hope. They go in great packs, and attack 
lions, tigers, and elepliants, by all of which 
they are frequently killed. Although there 
are wild dogs, now in South- America, yet this 
animal was unknown to the new continent, 
before it was carried there from Europe, 
This fiiews that the brute creation, like the 
human fpecics, may degenerate from a ftate 
of refined fociety, to that of a favage na- 
ture. In their wild ftate, they breed in 
holes, like rabbits; when taken young, they 
