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foe ree of da a and is eal accompanied with ie 
ait palaaciar | 
fem 
mals, fometimes appears among the wild {pecies, a3 in th : 
ef the elephant, flags, fallow-deer, monkeys es 
mice; in all which this colour is uniformly ace 
ith f{maller or greater degrees of bodily weaknefs, and 
blaathels of the fenfes. But flavery feems to have — 
the deepeft and moft confpicuous aoa on the camel. 
He is brought forth with banches on his back, and callofi 
The. w i 
erent climates 3 but it isno where de- 
If they were capable of chufing their climate and 
their food, the changes they un rand would be {till lefs: but 
as they have at all times been hunted and banifhed by man 
tion. The afs, ee fbjested to sei ae of hen 
wretched fereinade, has u es; for hisn 
ture is fo obdiirate, ae it equally refit bad treatment and 
of coarf 
Having furveyed the variations peculiar to ea A Wpetion 
M. Buffon direéts his attention to the moft i important age 
of the f{pecies themfelves. This, he fays, is the moft a 
cient degeneration ; and it feems to have ta on erent in ah 
family, or in each genus, aa which the contiguous {pecies 
oor all the quadrupeds, 
eh, 8, this aut or con- 
{pecies ; which he enumerates nera and 
two {pecies, viz. the bear mole, are commo both 
continents; and he infers, aig there remain only 
s, which are peculiar 
urfaing c pay and 
enumerating the animals as to the orld, he 
y: 
Sl he of Plants, in Botany. See Pia 
DEGLIGI, in rs a town of the ifand a Gey. 
lon; 16 miles N.E. of C 
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DEGLUTITION, in Phyfoleg ology, is the a& of {fwallowe 
e Se of the r its maftication hag 
he dont ee ‘ie ftomach. 
animals x their food into the mouth by means of 
the j jaws te ou 7 few poffcfs hands. Hence 
the jaws are much | n almoit every quadruped than in 
man, and are eae in an elongated and fle 
beyond the reft of the head, to admi 
0 
ication. 
a 
ire, therefore, the 
action of particular organs deftined for their propulfion. 
The procefs of chewing, being a nectflary preliminary to 
the a@t of fwallowing, will be confidered in the firft place. 
The immediate agents in this fr nétion are the two rows of 
teeth, implanted in the al 
mouth, or cavity in which the aé& of 
chewing is ie will form the next divifion of the ar- 
ticle: and here we {hall give a defcription, if, 
mouth in general; 2dly, of the lips and — with their 
mufcles; gdly, of the ate foft palate 
4thly, of the tongue and its m 
named membranous bag, eich receives the fo od, and drives 
it eens rds to the ftomach, will form the third part of the 
article; which will ee withan nec the efopha- 
x intothe ftomach. 
the lower jaw 
oppofed furfaces are furnifhed with two 
thin cartiiaginows coverings, of which one is common to the 
articular emine of the temporal bone, with that portion 
of the glenoid on which is in front of the fiffura Glaferi; 
and the other belongs to the condy ‘- con bones are held 
ee by three eves and t po ee alfo a 
fyn a an cea cartila Toe 
pee ligament ares from the root of the zy ee pro- 
cefs of the temporal bone, defcends obiiquely backwards, 
and is attached to the outer part of the ne eck of the condyle, 
It confifts of clofely united parallel fhi 
n obliquely downwards and forwards, 
rom the fpinous pre of the fphenoid bone to the orifice 
of 
