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fish, in winter nothing but meat, in sum- 

 mer milk and its various preparations. It 

 may further be remarked, that salted food, 

 which these people do not use, renders the 

 body heavy. 



Here I cannot help making a few inci- 

 dental remarks, on the opinion that man is 

 proved, by his teeth, to be formed to eat 

 all kinds of food. Those who advance this 

 opinion say, his front or cutting-teeth are 

 like those of animals that eat fruits or nuts, 

 as the Hare, Rabbit, Squirrel, &c.; his 

 canine, or eye-teeth, like those of beasts of 

 prey, as the Cat; and his grinders like 

 those of animals that live upon herbage, 

 as the Cow, Horse, Sic. But this reason- 

 ing is not altogether satisfactory to me. 

 If, in the first place, we examine the human 

 fore-teeth, we shall find them quite different 

 from those of nut-cracking animals of the 

 Squirrel or Hare tribe, which are more 

 prominent, and rather spreading than erect 

 at the angle, whereas ours are perpendicular, 

 M'itli their summits close and level. Hence 



