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The Hijiory of ANIMALS. 
Cams cauda recurva. 
''The CaniSy with the tail bent upwards, 2D00* 
The dog, in it’s wild date, is of a middle proportion, between the maftiff and 
greyhound : the head is long, and the nofe obtufe ; the neck is long and ffefhy and 
the body is moderately large ; the legs are long, and the tail is very long, and naturally 
turns up : the colour is tawny, and the fur about as long as that on the maftift- 
kind with us; it has a ftrong and quick fmell, and follows beads of a fmaller fize than 
ltlelt, as well by the nofe, as by fight. 
The dog, in this date, is a native of many parts of the Ead, and lives comforta¬ 
bly in the woods. It does not attack a man, if it meets him, but neither has it any 
thing of that kindnefs and familiarity which we find in it, unlefs bred with us. Many 
animals may be made as tame as the dog, by the fame kind of treatment* I have 
known it tried on the otter with perfect fuccefs. 
Authors have mentioned this fpecies by the dmple name of Canis, giving a variety 
of others to the feveral varieties which we have produced, and are continually pro¬ 
ducing by mixed breeds. The madid; the wolf-dog, the greyhound, the hound and 
it’s fubdivifions, the fpaniel, the water-fpaniel, the bull-dog, the lap-dog, and the red, 
are only varieties of this original fpecies. To thofe who would fuppofe them didind’ 
their forms, manners, and other particularities would render them fubje&s for a 
volume. 
Cam's cauda incurva. 
The Canhy with the tail bending inward. 
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As fome have been for making the lap-dog, the greyhound, and the red didin<d 
fpecies, others have erred in the contrary extream, and have been for confounding the 
wolf and the dog as of the fame, though in reality they are perfe&ly different. ^The 
wolf is a very large and a very fierce animal; it is equal to the bigged madiff in fize, 
and has much of the general appearance of that creature : the head is large and flefhy; 
the eyes have a very bold and fierce afpedt; they are large and prominent, and their 
iris is hazel: the ears are fhort, patulous, and eredt; the teeth are very large, and the 
creature has a way of fhewing them in a frightful manner by grinning: the neck 
is robud and thick; the antients fuppofed the creature could not move it, but this is 
an error; the wolf turns it about more readily than any of the dog-kind, and, though 
very drong, it is not at all rigid : the body is large, and the back broad, unlefs when 
the creature is darved : the legs are moderately long and very robud, and the tail is 
long and bufhy, like that of the fox, and naturally turns inward. 
The natural colour of the wolf is black, but there are fome tawny, and in many 
places they are, in winter, perfedtly white as fnow: the voice of this creature is very 
like the howling of the dog, but it does not bark in the manner of that animal. 
It is a native of almod all parts of Europe, and is very mifehievous wherever it 
comes. Cattle are a continual facrifice to it; and in hard winters, when the woods 
afford no food, they will come down in troops, and attack houfes and villages, de- 
droying every thing they can get at. All the writers on quadrupeds have deferibed it, 
and all the under the fame name Lupus. 
Canis roftro angujliore. 
The Canisy with a fe?ider fnout. 
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This is a very beautiful creature, and fo greatly approaches to the dog-kind, that it 
would be very natural for a perfon at firfl fight to mi flake it for fome mungrel breed 
of that animal; it is of the fize of a fmall hound ; the head is long and narrow, ef- 
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