USES OF ANIMALS. Ill 



9. ClotJung. — The use of skins as articles of dress, is 

 nearly coeval with our race. With the progress of civiliza- 

 tion, the fur itself is used, or the feathers, after having 

 been subjected to a variety of tedious and frequently com- 

 plicated processes. Besides the hair of quadrupeds, and 

 the feathers of birds used as clothing, a variety of products 

 of the animal kingdom, as bone, shells, pearls, and corals, 

 are employed as ornaments of dress, in all countries, how- 

 ever diffez'ent in their degree of civilization. 



3. Medicine. — The more efficient products of the mine- 

 ral kingdom, have, in the progress of the medical art, in a 

 great measure superseded the milder remedies furnished 

 by animals and vegetables. The blister-fly, however, still 

 remains without a rival ; and the leech, which may here be 

 noticed, is often resorted to when the lancet can be of no 

 avail. 



4, Arts. — The increase of the wants of civilized life, 

 calls for fresh exertions to supply them, and the animal 

 kingdom still continues to furnish a copious source of ma- 

 terials. Each class presents its own peculiar offering, and 

 the stores which yet remain to be investigated, appear in- 

 exhaustible. 



