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have the same number of bones and joints as 

 animals which have fingers and toes, so that the 

 arrangement of its feet bones is into first, second, 

 and third phalanges or knuckles, no less than 

 those of the human hand ;) and animals having 

 the requisite external structure, and correspon- 

 dent internal formation, yet not ruminating ; or 

 though ruminating, not having the requisite 

 construction of the feet, as the saphan* tran- 

 slated coney, Lev. x. 5, Deut. xiv. 7 ; which, 

 though it ruminates, yet has its feet divided by 

 two clefts into three toes. These are the " legis- 

 lative naturalist's" most obvious distinctions of 

 unclean quadrupeds. 



The Clean. 

 Fissipedes. 



All quadrupeds having their hoof entirely 

 divided into two parts only^ and having a corres- 

 ponding internal construction, and ruminating, as 

 oxen, deer, sheep, and goats. 



II. FISHES. 

 The Clean. 

 All such as have fins and scales. 



* " Probably the different species of jerboa, musjaculus, 

 Linn, are included in this word. The Rabbins render it 

 the rabbit." Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon, 



