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unambitious home of which they dispossessed the 
simple Indian. “ There are no vicissitudes for the 
eternal beauties of nature,” says Madame de Genlis : 
while, amid blood-stained revolutions, palaces, mar- 
ble columns, statues of bronze, and even cities them- 
selves disappear, the simple flower of the field, 
regardless of the storm, grows into beauty and mul- 
tiplies for ever.” 
‘‘ The wild race of Dogs of the Southern Continent 
which the Indians have reclaimed, and which, six and 
eight together in company, hunt agoutis, pacas, and 
wild gallinacea, with a solitary cry heard in the dense 
forest, — middling in size, light in colour, and close- 
haired, is the Aguara dog of Surinam. The species 
is not numerous. Among the aboriginal natives of 
the Northern Continent, there occurs a small dog 
of slender make, with broad pointed ears, covered 
with long white straight hair, and having the body 
clouded with blackish grey and brown intermingled 
spots, and the feet well clothed with fur. It is gentle 
and confiding in disposition, but mute ; at least in its 
native land it is never known to bark. These and 
the lanigerous dog beyond the Rocky Mountains, 
are the only races of the native breeds of either 
continent, in which we trace any of the peculiarities 
assigned to the Alco, in the two races distinguished 
by that name. 
“ Of the three different species of Dog, included 
by Fernandez in his History of the Animals of New 
Spain, under the generic name of Alco, Buffon, 
My MS. Notes of Travels in Haiti in 1830 and 1831. (R. H.) 
