DOG. 
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Div. II. Sed. II. Digitated Quadrupeds : with 
large canine teeth, feparated from 
the cutting teeth. 
Six, or more cutting teeth in each 
jaw. 
Rapacious: carnivorous. 
Six cutting teeth, and two canine in each jaw. 
Five toes before - 9 four behind 
Long vifage. 
D. with its tail betiding towards the left: a cha¬ 
racter common to the whole Ipecies, firft obferved 
by Linnaeus. 
Not originally in a wild ftate : the predominant 
paffion of the whole race towards an attachment to 
mankind, prevented thefe animals from feparating 
themfelves from us j till deferted, or by fome acci¬ 
dent left in places where there was no poflibility of 
re-union : it feems beyond the power of ill ufage to 
fubdue the faithfull and conftant qualities inherent 
in them. Found in great numbers wild, or rather 
without mailers, in Congo, Lower /.Ethiopia , and to¬ 
wards the Cape of Good Hope**: are red haired: 
have (lender bodies, and turned up tails, like gre- 
hounds ; others refemble hounds. Go in great 
packs : attack lions, tigers, and elephants, but are 
often killed by them : the fight of thefe dogs pleaf- 
* Invariable in the wild fpecies, fuch as wolf, &c. in the com¬ 
mon dogs, oftimes five toe§ on eacn foot. 
Churchill's coll, voy, v, 486. IjL ;o6, 107. 
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