concerning the Scripture- Animals. 8i 



'E^otTTcJk cTg Ta Toio^Tot WvTct f;(Tlv, fays Ariftotle (1. 4. c. 6. /^6' f7^ Vart^ 

 His omnibus^ fays !P/i;^, (1. 11. c. 48.) funt [em pedes. Nei- 

 ther is there any adequate Defcription, peculiar to this Tribe, 

 conveyed to us, by their being faid, to ha've Legs upon their 

 Feet, to leap ivithal upon the Earth : becaufe they have Thu^ 

 in common only, with Birds, Frogs, and feveral other Crea- 

 tures. The original Expreffion therefore, ( ^^^^ D'n^ nS ntr^ 

 nniS vSjnS) afljer lo herahn memaal lerigeleoii lenettar &c. may 

 probably bear this Conftrudiion : viz. which have Knees upon 

 or above their hinder Legs to leap ' withal upon the Earth. 

 For, to apply this Defcription to the Locuft or (n:2nn) Harhah, 

 the only one, we know, of the four% that are mentioned. 

 Lev. II. XI. this Infe6t hath the two hindermoft of it's Legs 

 or Feet, much ftronger, larger and longer than any of the 

 foremoft. In them, the Knee, or the Articulation of the Leg 

 and Thigh is diftinguiflied by a remarkable Bending or Curva- 

 ture ; whereby it is able, whenever prepared to jump, to 

 fpring and raife itfelf up, with great Force and Activity. As 

 the principal Diftindlion therefore, betwixt the clean and un- 

 clean Infeds, feems to have depended upon this particular 

 Shape and Strudure of the Hinder Feet ; the Adlion, which 

 is afcribed to the clean LifetSts, o^ going upon four, (viz. the 

 foremoft Feet ;) and leaping upon the {two) hindermoft, is a 

 Charadleriftick, as expreifive of the original Text, as it is of 

 the Animals, to whom it appertains. 



After the creeping Fowls, let us, in the laft Place, take a Difficulties 

 fliort Survey of the (^0^'r\ x^^) ftjairetz hajhairetz, the creeping^ot^uT. 

 things {Lev. II. i(), 30.) that creep, or, (as JJjairetz is taken 

 above andCe;/. 1. 10, 11 ) iMch bring forth ahundatitly , upon 

 the Earth. As this then appears to be the Scripture Phrafe for 

 Reptiles', which are, further defcribed to be, multiparous\ 

 with what Propriety can we place among Them, the IVeafel, 

 the Moufe, the Ferret or the Mole\ which are no greater 

 Breeders, than a Variety of others of the leller viviparous 

 Quadrupeds ? For the Tortoife, the Chamaleon, the Lizard 

 and the Snail, ( the Slug rather or Limax,) are Animals of a 



1 Infeda, qus noviffimos pedes habent longos, faliunt, ut Locufta?. Fl'tn. l.ii. c. 48. 



2 Viz.. naiN arbah, D;;7D failam, /IIU chargol^ 3Jn chog.tb : the three latter being 



X quite 



