Chap. 96.] THE MILE. 83 



Those which produce a more numerous progeny, and those 

 which have toes on the feet, have a greater number of paps dis- 

 tributed in a double row all along the belly, such as the 

 sow, for instance j the better sorts have twelve, the more 

 common ones two less : the same is the case also with the 

 female of the dog. Other animals, again, have four paps situate 

 in the middle of the belly, as the female panther; others, again, 

 two only, as the lioness. The female elephant has two only, 

 situate between the shoulders, and those not in the breast, but 

 without it, and hidden in the arm-pits : none of the animals 

 which have toes have the paps between the hind legs. The sow 

 presents the first teat to the first-born in each farrow, the first 

 teat being the one that is situate nearest to the throat. Each 

 pig, too, knows its own teat, according to the order in which 

 it was born, and draws its nourishment from that and no other : 

 if its own suckling, too, should happen to be withdrawn from 

 any one of them, the pap will immediately dry up, and shrink 

 back within the belly : if there should be only one pig left 

 of all the farrow, that pap alone which has been assigned for 

 its nutriment when born, will continue to hang down for the 

 purpose of giving suck. The she-bear has four mammae, the 

 dolphin only two, at the bottom of the belly ; they are not 

 easily visible, and have a somewhat oblique direction : this is 

 the only animal which gives suck while in motion. The balsena 

 and sea-calf also suckle their young by teats. 



CHAP. 96. (41.) THE MILK : THE BIESTESTGS. CHEESE | OF WHAT 



MILK CHEESE CANNOT BE MADE. B.ENNET ; THE VAKIOTJS KINDS 

 OF ALIMENT IN MILK. 



The milk that is secreted in a woman before her seventh 

 month is useless ; but after that month, so long as the foetus 

 is healthy, the milk is wholesome : many women, indeed, 

 are so full of milk, that it will flow not only from the mammas, 

 but exudes at the arm-pits even. 21 Camels continue in milk 

 until they are pregnant again. Their milk, mixed in the pro- 

 portion of one part to three of water, is considered a very 

 pleasant beverage. The cow has no milk before it has calved, 

 and that which immediately follows upon its bringing forth is 

 known as the " colostra : " 22 if water is not mixed with it, it will 



21 This assertion is borrowed from Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. vii. e. 14. 

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