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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE WILD-BOAR. 

 (Sus.Aper, Linn. Lc Sa-nglicr y Buff.) 



WHICH is the original of all the varieties to be 

 found in this creature, is much smaller than those 

 of the domestic kind, and does not, like them, 

 vary in colour, but is uniformly of a brindled 

 or dark grey, inclining to black. His snout is 

 longer than that of the tame Hog; and his ears are 

 short, round, and black. He is armed with for- 

 midable tusks in each jaw, which serve him for the 

 double purpose of annoying his enemy, or procur- 

 ing his food, which is chiefly roots and vegetables : 

 some of these tusks are almost a foot long: those 

 in the upper jaw bend upwards in a circular form, 

 .and are exceedingly sharp at the points; those of 

 the under jaw are always most to be dreaded, for 

 with them the animal defends himself, and fre- 

 quently gives mortal wounds. 



