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his master, has received but few impressions from 
art, we shall find the shepherd’s dog, or one very 
like him, still prevailing amongst them. The 
dogs that have run wild in America, and in Congo, 
approach this form. The dog of Siberia, Lapland, 
and Iceland, of the Cape of Good Hope, of 
Madagascar, Madura, Calicut, and Malabar, have 
alia long nose, pricked ears, and resemble the 
shepherd’s dog very nearly. In Guinea, the dog 
very speedily takes this form * for, at the second or 
third generation, the animal forgets to bark, his 
ears and his tail become pointed, and his hair 
drops off, while a coarser, thinner kind, comes in 
its place. This sort of dog is also to be found 
in the temperate climates in great abundance, 
particularly among those who, preferring useful- 
ness to beauty, employ an animal that requires very 
little instruction to be serviceable. Notwith- 
standing this creature’s deformity, his melancholy 
and savage air, he is superior to all the rest of 
his kind in instinct ; and without any teaching, 
naturally takes to tending flocks, with an assiduity 
and vigilance that at once astonishes, and yet re- 
lieves his master. 
In more polished and civilized places, the dog 
seems to partake of the universal refinement ; and, 
like the men, becomes more beautiful, more ma- 
jestic, and more capable of assuming an education 
foreign to his nature. The dogs of Albany, of 
Greece, of Denmark, and of Ireland, are larger 
and stronger tlian those of any other kind. In 
France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, the dogs are 
of various kinds, like the men ; and this variety 
seems formed by crossing the breed of such as are 
imported from various climes 
The shepherd’s dog may, therefore, be considered 
as the primitive stock from whence these varieties 
are all derived. He makes the stem of that ge- 
