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mg this faithful domestic. But it is a disorder 
by no means so frequent as the terrors of the 
timorous would suppose ; the dog has been often 
accused of madness without a fair trial ; and 
some persons have been supposed to receive their 
deaths from his bite,, when either their own ill- 
grounded fears, or their natural disorders were the 
true cause. 
Wolf. 
The dog and the wolf are so very much alike 
internally, that the most expert anatomists can 
scarcely perceive the difference ; and it is even 
asserted, that, externally, some dogs more nearly 
resemble the wolf than they do each other. It 
was this strong similitude that first led some na- 
turalists to consider them as the same animal, and 
to look upon the wolf as the dog in its state of 
savage freedom ; however, this opinion does not 
seem to be well founded ; the natural antipathy 
those two animals bear to each other, the longer 
time which the wolf goes with young thaji t^e 
dog, the one going over an hundred days, and the 
other not quite sixty, the longer period of life in 
the former than the latter, the wolf living twenty 
years, the dog not fifteen, all sufficiently point 
put a distinction, and draw a line that must for 
ever keep them asunder. 
The wolf, from the tip of the noseto the in- 
sertion of the tail, is about three feet seven inches 
long, and about two feet five inches high, which 
ghows him to be larger than our great breed of 
mastiffs, which are seldom found to be above 
three feet by two. His colour is a mixture of 
black, brown, and grey, extremely rough and 
bard, but mixed towards the roots with a kind of 
&&fe-coloured fur. In comparing him to any of 
