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ones are always bedded in front ; the canines spring 

 from the mouth and bend upwards ; the muzzle is 

 terminated by a truncated sort of button, fitted for 

 grubbing the earth ; the stomach is little divided. 



The Swines, properly speaking, have twenty-four 

 or twenty-six cheek-teeth, the posterior of which 

 have tuberculous crowns, the anterior are more or 

 less compressed, and six incisors in each jaw. 



The Sanglier, or Wild Hog (Sus Scropha,) Buff. V. xiv. 



and xvii. 



Which is the root of our domestic Hog, and of 

 its varieties, has the tusks in a prismatic form, 

 bent outward, and a little upward ; the body is 

 thick, the ears erect, the fur erect and black ; 

 the young are striped black and white ; it does 

 great damage to the cultivated fields in the 

 vicinity of forests, in burrowing in search of 

 roots. 



The Domestic Hog varies in size, in the 

 height of its legs, in the direction of its ears, and 

 in colour, sometimes white, at others black, red, 

 or varied. Every one knows its utility by the 

 facility with which it is fed — the flavour of its 

 flesh — the facility of salting it; and, finally, by 

 its fecundity, which surpasses by far that of 

 other animals of the same size, sometimes 

 fourteen being brought at one litter; the female 

 is gravid four months, and produces twice a 

 year ; the Hog will continue to grow five or six 



