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horfes have learnt to (tamp upon a gorfe-bufh with 

 one of their fore-feet for a minute together, and 

 when the points are broken, they eat it without 

 injury. The horfes in the new for eft in Hampihire 

 are affirmed to do the fame by Mr. Gilpin. Foreft 

 Scenery, II. 251, and 112. Which is an art other 

 horfes in the fertile parts of the country do not 

 pofiefs, and prick their months till they bleed, if 

 they are induced by hunger or caprice to attempt 

 eating gorfe. 



Swine have a fenfe of touch as well as of fmell at 

 the end of their nofe, which they ufe as a hand, 

 both to root up the foil, and to turn over and exa- 

 mine objects of food, fomewhat like the probofcis 

 of an elephant. As they require flicker from the 

 cold in this climate, they have learnt to collecl; 

 draw in theh mouths to make their neft, when the 

 wind blows cold ; and to call their companions by 

 repeated cries to aflift in the work, and add to their 

 warmth by. their numerous bed-fellows. Hence 

 thefe animals, which are efteemed fo unclean, have 

 alfo learned never to befoul their dens, where they 

 have liberty, with their own excrement ; an art, 

 which cows and horfes, which have open hovels to 

 run into, have never acquired. I have obferved 

 great fagacky in fwine ; but the fhort lives we allow 

 them, and their general confinement, prevents their 

 improvement, which might probably be otherwife 

 greater than that of dogs. 



Inftances of the fagacity and knowledge of ani- 

 mals are very numerous to every obferver, and 

 their docility in learning various arts from mankind, 

 evinces that they may learn fimilar arts from their 

 own fpecies, and thus be pofleffed of much acquired 

 and traditional knowledge. 



A dog whofe natural prey is flieep, is taught by 

 mankind, not only to leave them unmolefted, but 



to 



