208 Animals. 



Brutes, which have no cutting teeth ; the 

 Ferae or Wild Beasts, which have six cut- 

 ting teeth in each jaw; the Glires, or 

 Dormice, which have two cutting teeth 

 both above and below ; the Pecora, or 

 Cattle, which have no cutting teeth above, 

 and six or eight below ; the Belluse. or 

 Beasts, properly so called, which have the 

 fore teeth blunt ; and the Cetse, or those 

 of the Whale kind, which have cartilagi- 

 nous teeth. This is the brief outline of 

 this celebrated Naturalist's arrangement, 

 the names of the different animals, and 

 their respective classes, occupying no 

 less than two large octavo volumes ; but 

 the natural division of animated nature, is 

 universally allowed to be the five follow- 

 ing classes ; Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes^ 

 Insects, and Amphibious Animals ; tho' 

 it must be confessed that this distribution 

 is not exactly defined by nature ; as there 

 are many animals whose form and quali- 

 ties render it difficult to reduce them to 

 any one of these classes. 



I. QvMdrupeds. Quadrupeds are a large 

 and useful class of animals, whose gener- 

 ic characters are these ; their bodies are 

 covered with hair: they have four feet; 



