SLOTH. 



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inflictors of their pain ; they have no upbraiding 

 consciences, no apprehensions as regards the future ; 

 the present is all to them, and it is not always 

 wretched. 



THE THREE-TOED SLOTH. 



Such is the subject-matter of the excellent re- 

 marks of the humane and enlightened editors of 

 CUVIER'S Animal Kingdom; to which we may add, 

 that notwithstanding all the privations under which 

 Sloths are supposed to labour, they cannot be un- 

 happy. Their pleasures, it is true, according to our 

 mode of thinking, can be few or none; but then 



