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when they light upon one, they gorge them- 

 felves fo therewith, as to fufRce for their Nou- 

 rifliment for a confiderable Time. 



Fourthly y I fhall note the exadt Fitnefs of the 

 Parts of the Bodies of Animals to every one's 

 Nature and Manner of Living. A notable In- 

 ftance of which we have in the Swine, a Crea- 

 ture well known, and therefore what I fhall ob- 

 ferve of it is obvious to every Man. His proper 

 and natural Food being chiefly the Roots of 

 Plants, he is provided with a long and ftrong 

 Snout 5 long, that he might thruft it to a fuffi- 

 cient Depth into the Ground without Offence to 

 his ^Eyes ; ftrong and conveniently formed for 

 the rooting and turning up the Ground. And 

 befides, he is endued with a notable Sagacity of 

 Scent, for the finding out fuch Roots as are fit 

 for his Food. Hence in Italy, the ufual Me- 

 thod for finding and gathering of Trufes, or fub- 

 terraneous Mufhromes, (called by the Italians 

 Tartiifali, and in Latin I^ubera terra) is, by ty- 

 ing a Cord to the Hind- leg of a Pig, and dri- 

 ving him before them into fuch Paflures as ufual- 

 ly produce that Kind of Mufhrome, and ob- 

 ferving where he ftops and begins to root, and 

 there digging, they are fure to find a T'rufle ; 

 which when they have taken up, they drive 

 away the Pig to fearch for more. So I have my 

 felf obferved, that in Paflures where there are 

 Earth-nuts to be found up and down in feveral 

 Patthes, tho' the Roots lie deep in the Ground, 

 and the Stalks be dead long before and quite 



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