USES OF ANIMALS. Ill 



2. Clothing. The use of skins as articles of dress, is 

 nearly coeval with our race. With the progress of civiliza- 

 tion, the fur itself is used, or the feathers, after having 

 been subjected to a variety of tedious and frequently com- 

 plicated processes. Besides the hair of quadrupeds, and 

 the feathers of birds used as clothing, a variety of products 

 of the animal kingdom, as bone, shells, pearls, and corals, 

 are employed as ornaments of dress, in all countries, how- 

 ever different in their degree of civilization. 



3. Medicine. The more efficient products of the mine- 

 ral kingdom, have, in the progress of the medical art, in a 

 great measure superseded the milder remedies furnished 

 by animals and vegetables. The blister-fly, however, stifl 

 remains without- a rival ; and the leech, which may here be 

 noticed, is often resorted to when the lancet can be of no 

 avail. 



4. Arts. The increase of the wants of civilized life, 

 calls for fresh exertions to supply them, and the animal 

 kingdom still continues to furnish a copious source of ma- 

 terials. Each class presents its own peculiar offering, and 

 the stores which yet remain to be investigated, appear in- 

 exhaustible. 



