404 Ortgi?ies Zoologka, 



and cheeks more or less dilatable, and capable of being formed 

 into pouches, are enabled to preserve a portion of their food 

 to be brought forward for occasional mastication. 



The fur of the hare and the rabbit is much used in the 

 manufacture of hats. 



Cff Ruminating Animals^ or, as they are commonly called, 

 cattle; it may here be remarked, that they form a truly 

 natural division, and vv^ere, in the earliest formation of social 

 manners, pointed out by Moses as exclusively, among qua- 

 drupeds, constituting the proper food of man. " Whatsoever 

 parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, 

 among the beasts, that shall ye eat." (Leviticus, xi. 3.) From 

 all other quadrupeds they are distinguished by peculiarities 

 so characteristic as to remove all difficulty of identification, 

 in a wild or domesticated state, in the living animal or the 

 dead carcass. It was remarked by Aristotle, that such of 

 them as have horns have no tusks, and such of them as have 

 tusks have no horns. Destined to graze upon the herbage 

 of pastures, they have no front teeth in the upper jaw ; and, 

 as the head is constantly in an inclined posture, during the 

 time they are feeding, the neck is supported on each side by 

 a strong and remarkably tough ligament, called whitleather, 

 or white-leather [called, at table, packwax]. The hunter, in 

 search of food, may at once distinguish them from impure 

 quadrupeds, or such as are not usually fit to be eaten, if he 

 can see them in a recumbent or crouching posture ; for the 

 whole of this tribe rise from the ground with the hind feet 

 first, and all other quadrupeds with the fore feet first: 

 that is, a cow or a sheep first lifts up the hinder parts, with 

 the knees of the fore-legs on the ground; but the horse and 

 the dog first lift up the fore parts, with the front hoofs on the 

 ground, and then the hind parts. This may possibly be oc- 

 casioned by the weight of the four stomachs, with which all 

 ruminating quadrupeds are furnished. The internal fat of all 

 this tribe is hard, and called suet, sufficiently consistent to 

 make candles ; while that of all others is of a softer and more 

 oily consistence. [That of the bear is now known to most 

 by the name of bear's grease ; and that of the hog is familiar 

 to all by the name of pork lard, or pork seam.] 



AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS. 



A tribe intermediate, as it were, between the inhabitants of 

 land and water, possessing properties in some measure com- 

 mon to both, and often peculiar to themselves. The body is 

 cold, and slow of motion, the countenance stern and ex- 

 tremely expressive ; with the senses of sight and hearing of 



