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doubt, expreflive of their own enjoyments, 

 and of their focial feehngs. 



Befides the hogs, thus led out in the 

 mafl-feafon to fatten, there are others, 

 the property of foreft-keepers, which fpend 

 the whole year in fuch focieties. After the 

 maft-feafon is over, the indigenous foreft-hog 

 depends chiefly for his livelihood on the roots 

 of fern : and he would find this food very 

 nourifliing, if he could have it in abundance. 

 But he is obliged to procure it by fo laborious 

 an operation, that his meals are rarely ac- 

 companied with fatiety. He continues how- 

 ever, by great induftry, to obtain a tolerable 

 fubfiflence through the winter, except in 

 frofty weather, when the ground refifts his 

 delving fnout : then he muft perifli, if he 

 do not in fome degree experience his mafter's 

 care. As fpring advances, frefli grafies, and 

 falads of diiferent kinds, add a variety to his 

 bill of fare ; and as fummer comes on, he 

 finds juicy berries, and grateful feeds, on 

 which he lives plentifully, till autumn returns, 

 and brings with it the extreme of abundance. 



Befides thefe ftationary hogs, there are 

 others in fome' of the more defolate parts of 

 the foreft, which are bred wild, and left to 



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