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them; food, climate, and education, all tend to caufe - 
deviations in fize, hair, fhape, and colour, ‘The fame 
dog becomes a different animal, if takento a different: 
climate from that ia which he was bred: Nothing, 
therefore, but their internal ftructure, diftinguifhes 
this fpecies from every other. They may be faid to 
be all, originally, from the fame Rack ; but which of 
the kinds can claim the immediate deicent, is not yet 
determined- 
The different fpecies of this animal, in its domeftic 
ftate, are, the fhepherd’s dog, hound, fpaniel, gre 
hound, Danifh dog, mattiff, bull dog, pup dog, Irith 
prey hound, terrier, blood hound, leymmer, tum- 
ler, lap dog, fmall Danith dog, Harlequin dog, cur 
Mog, fhark, Turkish, and lion dogs, 
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MASTIFF. 
Tus very ufeful and ineftimable animal we have 
chofen,’as firft worthy our particular notice, it being 
the largeft, and of the moft effential fervice to man. 
‘The mattiff poffeffes great fize and ftrength ; hasa 
large head, with hanging lips, and a noble counten- 
ance. Thiscreature is fo formidable, that, Caius. 
fays, the Romans reckoned three of them a match for 
abear, and four fora lion. Great Britain was fo 
famous for mattiffs, that the Roman emperors appoint- 
ed an officer to fuperintend their breed, and fend 
them, at a proper age, to Rome, for the combats in the 
Amphitheatre. In England, they are ufually kept to 
guard yards, houfes, and other places. . : 
In orde try the ftrength of this creature, James 
I, caufed three of them to be loofed ona lion, which 
was vanquifhed by their ftrength and courage.. Two 
of the dogs were, indeed, difabled in the combat but 
the third obliged the lion to feek his fafety by flight. 
From the fize, ftrength, and courage, of this noble 
