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fpecies to which the name of quadruped Is per- 

 fedly applicable. The number of cloven-hoof- 

 ed animals greatly exceeds that of the wliole- 

 hoofed. The oxen, the fheep, the goats, the 

 antilopes, the bubalus, the lama, the pacos, the 

 giraffe, the elk, the rain deer, the flag, the 

 fallow-deer, the roebuck, &c. are all cloven- 

 footed, and conllitute about forty fpecies. Thus 

 we have already fifty animals, ten whole and 

 forty cloven-hoofed, to whom the name qua- 

 driiped is properly applied. In the digitated 

 animals, the lion, tiger, panther, leopard, lynx, 

 cat, wolf, dog, fox, hyaena, badger, polecat, 

 weafels, ferret, porcupines, hedgehogs, arma- 

 dillos, ant-eaters, and hogs, which laft confti- 

 tute the (hade between the digitated and cloven- 

 footed tribes, forma number confifting of more 

 than forty fpecies, to which the term of ^?<fl- 

 ^n//>^^/ applies with perfeiSt precifion ; bccaufe, 

 though their fore-feet be divided into four or 

 five toes, they are never ufed as hands. But 

 all the other- digitated fpecies, who vXt their 

 fore-feet in carrying food to their mouths, are 

 not, in firiil propriety of language, quadrupeds. 

 Thefe fpecies, which likewife amount to forty, 

 make an intermsdiate clafs between quadru- 

 peds and four-handed animals, being n^either 

 the one nor the other. Hence, to more than a 

 fourth of cur anim.als, the name of quadruped 

 does not apply ; and to more than a Iiaif of 

 {hem, the application of it is incomplete. 



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