28 ORDERS OF 



the paunch or first stomach, where it is macerated for 

 a while, and from whence it is again passed into the 

 mouth. Being remasticated, it next descends into the 

 reticulate stomach, through a canal, the sides of which 

 contract in such manner as to form a perfect tube ; and 

 from thence to the plicous and digestive stomachs. In 

 full grown animals, the paunch is always much larger 

 than any of the other stomachs; but in young animals 

 the digestive stomach is largest. This arises from the 

 milk which they draw from their mother riot requiring 

 to be re-masticated like other food. In all the animals, 

 both the intestinal canal, and the coecum, are of great 

 length. None of them have any gall-bladder. 



Their flesh constitutes an exceedingly palatable and sa- 

 lutary food. Their hair and skin supply mankind with 

 clothing ; and their fat, horns, hoofs, and blood, are 

 all employed for useful purposes. The Deer and Oxen 

 have in general short hair: that of Sheep, which has 

 the peculiar denomination of wool, is long, and dis- 

 tinguished by a crisped or frizzled appearance. 



BELLUJE. 



Horses and Swine. 



The animals of the present order, like those of the last, 

 have their toes enveloped in such manner by horn, that 

 their nails have the denomination of hoofs. Swine have 

 two of these hoofs on each foot, and horses only one. 



The mouths of all the species are furnished with wedge- 

 like, truncated cutting-teeth in both jaws ; and, in addition 

 to these, the Swine have, in each jaw, two long tusks. Their 



intestines 



