I40 He Wisdom of GOD Part L 

 gone, the Swine will by their Scent eafily find 

 Siem out, and root only in thofe Places where 

 they grow. 



This rooting of the Hog in the Earth, calls 

 to mind another Inftance of like Nature, that is 

 the Porpejfe^ which, as his Englijh Name Por- 



• S i efifli ^^' ^*^* * Pore pefce^ imports, re- 

 ^^^^" * fembles the Hog, both in the 

 Strength of his Snout, and alfo in the Manner of 

 getting his Food by rooting ; for we found the 

 Stomach of one we differed full of Sand-Eels^ 

 or LaunceSy which for the moft Part lie deep 

 in the Sand, and cannot be gotten but by root- 

 ing or digging there. We have feen the Coun- 

 try-People in Cornwall^ when the Tide was 

 out, to fetch them out of the Sand with Iron- 

 Hooks thruft down under them, made for that 

 Purpofe. 



Furthermore, that very Adlion for which the 

 Swine is abominated, and look'd upon as an un- 

 clean and impure Creature, namely wallowing 

 in the Mire, is defign'd by Nature for a very 

 good End and Ufe, 'viz. not only to cool his 

 Body, for the fair Water would have done that 

 as well, nay, better, for commonly the Mud 

 and Mire in Summer-time is warm \ but alfo 

 to fufFocate and deftroy Lice, Fleas, and other 

 noifom and importunate Infefts, that are trou- 

 blefome and noxious to him. For the fame 

 Reafon do all the Poultry-kind, and divers other 

 Birds, bask themfelves in the Duft in Summer- 

 time 



