34 LECTURE IL 



situated beneath the eyelids, and which can at 

 pleasure be drawn over the ball of the eye for its 

 farther defence. The nose or organ of smelling is 

 more or less compressed and lengthened. In the 

 Elephant it is extended in a most wonderful man- 

 ner into a long and tubular proboscis or trunk, at 

 the tip of which are placed the nostrils. The 

 tongue in Quadrupeds is usually of a flattened and 

 lengthened shape; sometimes, as in the Cat or 

 Lion-tribe, beset on its upper surface, with small, 

 reversed spines. In some few, as in the Ant- 

 Eaters, it is of a cylindric shape, and lengthened 

 into the form of a worm, and is extensile at the 

 pleasure of the animal. 



The Teats or Mammae are found in all these 

 animals, and, as before observed, give rise to the 

 Linnaean title of the whole class. 



After this general description of the Mammalia, 

 we may proceed to take a slight view of the prin- 

 cipal tribes or orders, and their most remarkable 

 genera and species. 



Modern Naturalists have disagreed with respect 

 to the particular methods or distributions into 

 which they have arranged Quadrupeds. The cele- 

 brated Count de Buffon entirely neglected all me- 



