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they are viviparous ; and the females 

 suckle their young. 



Quadrupeds are the most important 

 creatures to man, and deserve his atten- 

 tion more than the inhabitants of either 

 the air, or the water. They inhabit the 

 same soil with man ; and among them are; 

 found beings possessing a greater share 

 of instinct than the inhabitants of either 

 air or water ; they breathe through their 

 lungs, like the human species ; like these 

 they are viviparous ; they have also warm 

 red blood circulating through their veins ; 

 and, however mortifying the reflection to 

 human pride, many of them, both in their 

 internal and external form, bear a strong 

 resemblance to man the interior struc- 

 ture of some of the ape kind, so nearly 

 resembles that of the human kind, that 

 anatomists can scarcely discover where 

 the peculiarity exists. 



Though the characters of Quadrupeds 

 are so obvious, yet as all the parts of na- 

 ture are united together, to form one 

 grand whole ; there are several species, 

 which seem to be of an equivocal na- 

 ture, and which form the links, uniting 

 different animals together ; as the Bat 

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