esticated, but bred up in sties, where they
are fed for the table with rice-meal and other farinaceous food. These
dogs, having been taken on board as soon as weaned, could not learn much
from their dam; yet they did not relish flesh when they came to England.
In the islands of the Pacific Ocean the dogs are bred upon vegetables,
and would not eat flesh when offered them by our circumnavigators.

We believe that all dogs, in a state of nature, have sharp, upright, fox-
like ears, and that hanging ears, which are esteemed so graceful, are the
effect of choice breeding and cultivation. Thus, in the "Travels of
Ysbrandt Ides from Muscovy to China," the dogs which draw the Tartars on
snow-sledges, near the river Oby, are engraved with prick-ears, like
those from Canton. The Kamschatdales also train the same sort of sharp-
eared, peak-nosed dogs to draw their sledges, as may be seen in an
elegant print engraved for Captain Cook's last voyage round the world.

Now we are upon the subject of dogs, it may not be impertinent to add
that spaniels, as all sportsmen know, though they hunt partridges and
pheasants as it were by instinct, and with much delight and alacrity, yet
will hardly touch their bones when offered as food; nor will a mongrel
dog of my own, though he is remarkable for finding that sort of game.
But, when we came to offer the bones of partridges to the two Chinese
dogs, they devoured them with much greediness, and licked the platter
clean.

No sporting dogs will flush woodcocks till inured to the scent and
trained to the sport, which they then pursue with vehemence and
transport; but then they will not touch their bones, but turn from them
with abhorrence, even when they are hungry.

Now, that dogs should not be fond of the bones of such birds as they are
not disposed to hunt is no wonder; but why they reject and do not care to
eat their natural game is not so easily accounted for, since the end of
hunting seems to be that the chase pursued should be eaten. Dogs again
will not devour the more rancid water-fowls, nor indeed the bones of any
wild fowls; nor will they touch the foetid bodies of birds that feed on
offal and garbage; and indeed there may be somewhat of providential
instinct in this circumstance of dislike, for vultures, and kites, and
ravens, and crows, etc., were intended to be messmates with dogs over
their carrion, and seem to be appointed by Nature as fellow-scavengers to
remove all cadaver