Animals. %'il 



vorous animals are sharp, and serve 

 rather as weapons o defence, In both,, 

 however, the surfaces of the grinding 

 teeth are unequal and jagged, locking in- 

 to each other when the jaws are brought 

 into contact. The stomach of carnivo- 

 rous animals is also small and glandular ; 

 and affords such juices as are best adap- 

 ted to digest and macerate its contents ; 

 but those animals which subsist on a 

 vegetable diet, have four stomachs ; all 

 which serve as so many laboratories, to 

 prepare the food for the nourishment of 

 the body ; and, in general, granivorous 

 animals, whose food is easily procured, 

 have large capacious stomachs, and ca- 

 pable of great dilation ; whereas carni- 

 vorous creatures have the stomach more 

 contracted, and the intestines curtailed^ 

 whereby they are enabled to subsist for 

 a longer time without food. Strong 

 large animals, which are neither tbrmed 

 for pursuit rior flight, as the Elephant, 

 Rhinoceros, Sea- Horse, &c. have thick 

 massy legs, to support their unweildy bo- 

 dies. While Deers, Hares, and other 

 creatures, whose safety depends on flight, 

 and who are beset by numberless ene- 



