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longer get nourifhment, two horfes will do 

 very well there for fome days, and when no- 

 thing is left for the horfes, four fheep will live 

 upon it. 



Swine get provifion by turning up the earth; 

 for there they find the fucculent roots, which 

 to them are very delicious. 



The leaves and fruits of trees are intended 

 as food for fome animals, as the floth % 



the 



*■ There is fo curious an account of this animal in Kir- 

 cher's Mufurgia, that i think the reader will excufe my 

 tranfcribing it. That author fays thus : * The defcription of 



* this animal i had fromfatherTorus, provincial of thejefuites 



* in America, who had animals of this kind in his pofleilion, 



* and made many experiments in relation to their nature 



* and qualities. Its figure is extraordinary ; it is about the 



* bignefs of a cat, of very ugly countenance, and has claws 



* extended like fingers. The hinder part of the head and 



* neck are covered with hair. It fweeps.the ground with 



* its fat belly, never rifes upon its feet, and moves io 



* flowly, that it would fcarce go the length of a bow-fhot 



* in 15 days, tho' conllantly moving, and it is therefore 



* called the Sloth. It is not known what it feeds upon, 



* not being ever obferved to take any food. It lives gene- 



* rally upon tops of trees, and employs two days to crawl 

 « up, and as many to get down again. Nature has doubly 



* guarded this animal againft its enemies. Firft by giving 



* it fuch ftrcngth in its feet that whatever it feizes, it holas 



* fo faft, that it never can be freed from its claws, but mull 



* there dye of hunger. Secondly in giving it fuch a moving 



* afpcwl. 



