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the class of beasts, admit of more numerous subdivisions than 

 either the hand, or the wing-footed types ; in each of which 

 but one district was included, comprising the races and the 

 kinds ; in this, however, three districts are found, each con- 

 taining three several races, and each race its appropriate kinds. 

 These districts have been already named the Cornipedates, the 

 Praecocinates or Marsupiates, and the Unguipedates, and of 

 each of them in turn. The indications, however, shall be 

 strictly restrained to outline. ( Vide Table, p. 348.) 



Among the digitated quadrupeds, associated either by having 

 distinctly developed toes, or their digits, if less exserted, being 

 armed with nails or claws, never having hoofs, or Mastothecae, 

 considerable differences in habit and in other natural charac- 

 ters prevail. One extensive race includes the more or less 

 savage beasts, such as are usually referred to as beasts of prey ; 

 and the pugnacious and sarcophagal propensities pervade the 

 entire race, though subject to many modifications, according to 

 the corporeal strength of the several kinds, or the circumstances 

 under which certain individuals may be placed. They are 

 strongest in the lion, the tiger, the wolf, the fox, the weazel, 

 and the ferret : weaker in the bear, the badger, and the racoon ; 

 and evanishing in the mole, the shrew, and the hedgehog ; by 

 which last the Ferae are connected with another type. In the 

 true Ferae and their allies three sorts of teeth are found, in- 

 cisors, canines, and molars, — at least there is no decided 

 absence of either ; for even when the laniar character is obscure, 

 the transitional canines occupy that space which is left vacant 

 in the Rodentia, or Glires. They have no horizontal motion 

 of the jaw, their smell is great, and their intestines short. 

 They are more or less exclusively carnivorous by nature, 

 according to the relative developement of their normal struc- 

 ture, especially of the laniar teeth ; from the lion and the tiger, 

 which have them large and long, to the hedgehog, in which they 

 are ambiguous. This last genus, as hath been already noticed, 

 forms the connecting link between the Ferae and the Glires, as 

 the Hyrax will connect the Unguipedates by the Glires, to the 

 Cornipedates by the Belluae, as shall be seen hereafter. Accord- 

 ing to these circumstances, and the habits thereon dependent, the 

 Ferae have been conveniently subsorted into three sections, the 

 Sanguinariae, the Predaceae, and the Subterranese : the former 



