THE HOG KIND. 4^ 



the beginning of December. William the Conqueror alio punilhed fuch 

 as were convifted of killing the wild boar in his forefts, with the lofs of 

 their eyes. At prefent the wild breed is extinftj but no country makes 

 greater ufe of the tame. 



This animal is native of almoft every country, except in the frigid 

 zones and Kamtchatka, and where the cold is very feverc. Since in- 

 troduced into America by the Europeans, abounds to excefs in the hot and 

 temperate parts. The Eaft-India breed is lower, leis furnilhed with hair, 

 ufually black, and has the belly almoft touching the ground i it is now 

 common in England. 



There is a remarkable variety of this animal about Upfal, which is 

 fingle- hoofed, like the horfe ; but in no other rcfpeft differing from the 

 common kinds. The Guinea hog differs alfo in fome things from our own* 



I have leen in the poffeflion of an officer, who had ferved in the Eaft- 

 Indies, drawings of a pair of creatures exadly refcmbling hogs, except 

 that they had only two legs, their hinder parts being held up in the air, 

 as it were. They are natives of Ceylon, and were fent from thence to a 

 Rajah (I believe) of Tanjore, where they were drawn. They walk with 

 difficulty, and are not eafily induced to rife. 



Thefe we confider as of the hog kind j there are other quadrupeds 

 refembling this fpecies, but very diftind, notwithftanding their general 

 form or habits. 



THE 

 AFRICAN WILD BOAR 



DIFFERS from that of Europe, efpecially by its head ; which is 

 enormoufly large ; has two tufks in the lower jaw, and two very- 

 large in the upper, rifing almoft perpendicular, near feven inches long. 

 The under tulks exactly meet the upper when the mouth is {hut. The 

 head is flat in front, and ends in a confiderable breadth of fnout, almoft 

 of a horny hardnefs, with which he roots the earth ; no fore teeth; his 

 eyes are placed on the fore part of his head, fo that he can only fee be- 

 fore him. Beneath them is a very wrinkled kind of hollow, formed of 

 loofe fkin j fomewhat lower, the fkin rifes, and forms on each fide an 

 excrefcence, which at a little diftance refembles ears in fize and figure, 

 broad, flat, rounded at the end, lying alm.oft in tlue fame direftion as 

 the face, intercepting the view of every thing below from the animal ; 



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