mammalia; 



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They have all four ftomachs : lft, The Rumen or Paunch, in which the food is ma- 

 cerated for fome time, to be afterwards brought up to the mouth and chewed more 

 fully; this action is called ruminating : 2d, The Reticulum, Bonnet, or Kmgfhood, of a 

 cellular texture, receives the food after rumination: 3d, The Omaflus, or Manyplies, 

 compofed on its inner furface of numerous folds, digefts the food : 4th, The Aboma- 

 fus, Caille, or Red, divided into bundles, gives acefcency to the food, to prevent putre- 

 faction. 



VI. BELLUiE. 



Have obtufely truncated fore teeth. — Their feet are armed with hoofs. — Their mo- 

 tions are flow and heavy. — They live on vegetable food., from which their digeftive 

 organs draw a tinfture without diffolution- 



VII. CETE*. 



Inftead of feet, the animals of this order are provided with peroral fins and a hori- 

 zontally flattened tail fit for fwimming. — They have no claws or hair. — -The teeth, in 

 fome fpecies, are cartilaginous, and boney in others. — Inftead of noftrils, they have a 

 fiftulous opening on the anterior and upper part of the head. — They live entirely in the 

 fea, feeding on fea-blubbers and fifh. 



CHARACTERS. 



* This order, though nearly allied in manners and form to fifties, is nece/Tarily ranked with the clafs 

 of Mammalia from fimilarity in ftrufture — Their heart has two auricles and two ventricles, which pro- 

 pel warm, red blood : — They have regularly alternate lungs: — Their eye-lids are moveable: — They 

 have open ears, which receive impreffions of found from the motions of the air : — They have feven ver- 

 tebrae of the neck, lumbar bones, and a coccyx: — They procreate with an intrant penis ; — And, laftly, 

 the female fuckles her young with milk by means of teats. 



