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the mole is amply recompensed, by the great 

 perfection of two other senses, those of hearing 

 and of smelling ; the first gives it notice of the 

 most distant approach of danger; the other, 

 which is equally exquisite, directs it in the midst 

 of darkness to its food : the nose also, being 

 very long and slender, is well formed for thrust- 

 ing into small holes, in search of the worms and 

 insects that inhabit them. These gifts may 

 with reason be said to compensate the defect of 

 sight, as they supply in this animal all its wants, 

 and all the purposes of that sense. Thus am- 

 ply supplied as it is, with every necessary ac- 

 commodation of life, we must avoid assenting 

 to an observation of a most respectable writer, 

 and only refer the reader to the note, where he 

 may find the very words of that author, and 

 compare them with those of our illustrious 

 countryman, Mr. Ray.^' 



* La taupe, sans etre aveugle, a les yeux si pellts si couverts, 

 qu'elle ne peut faire grand usage du sens de la vue : en dedom- 

 magemcnt la nature lui a donne avec magnificence Tusage du 

 sixiime sens, Sec. 



Mr. i?a^ makes the latter obsen-ation ; but forms from it a con- 

 clusion much more solid and moral. Testes maximos, parastatas 

 amplissimas, novum corpus seminale ah his diversum et separatum 



natura concessit: penem etiam facile omnium, ni Jailor, 



animalium,longissimn}n : ex quihus colligere est, maximum prce re- 

 liquis omnibus animalilus voluptaiem in coitu hoc aljectum et 



