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 £44 THE 1 J I S T O R Y >Boofc t appellations of it, the Aiyn of th6 Welch, the Azen of the Armpr ricans, apd the Afal of the Irifh, demonfhatively prove*. But by the intermixture of them and the horfes another fort of animal was formed in the ifland, fharing ufefully the nature of both* and denominated by the Roman name of Myl, Mul, or Mule. Thefe the Britons as well as the Gauls rauft have yoked ft* their chariots, *nd have taught them all the various paces and all the ready obedience of their managed horfea u # The breed of our Britifh dogs muft oiice have been as fre- quently wild as our horfes, and has as great a propenfity to be- come wild at prefent. In the defert piaips of Patagonia, where the European horfes have lapfed into abfolute barbarifoi, the European dogs have equally lapfed with them ; and are found equally lavage in the beautiful but uncultivated ifUnd of Juan Fernandes. The wild dogs o£ Britain muft have been early re- (claimed by the Britifli hunters, apd their pfioeiples of courage: and their powers of faga die gEeyhou^d^ the bulldog, thfc terrier* and the ljirge flow hfltffld*, The fir-ft is bl^V witfr frt> powtt* of J&gacity at -all, but is animated with aft. vjRffujimon ^cce of courage*, Audit is pe* culiajly diftiiigniflwd from other? by a fwly dignity o£ afpe£t, 7 by a genuine good-naturednsfa »f temper* and by an honeifc fidelity of heart* We Jbave a breed of thefe at Manchester that is euwmoufly tali and kicge*. And juft fuch an one is repre- sented upoa a coin of Cunobeline r and a. perfoa appears mounted iiieways upon it, the worthy animal waving its tail and turn- iiig up its face with a feuftUe fa$sfa£tto& in its rider l V The bull-dog enjoys equally a- fagacity of nofe and a> bravery of {pint. The latter indeed h fa peculiarly eminent* that this; di>g;