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colour. Between the bristles, next the skin, is a 

 much finer and softer kind of hair, of a some- 

 what woolly or curled nature: but the principal 

 diiference between the wild Boar and the domestic 

 is the size of the tusks, which in the wild Boar 

 are often several inches in length, and capable of 

 inflicting the most severe and fatal wounds. 

 Though the general size of the Wild Boar is 

 inferior to that of the domestic, yet instances 

 have occasionally occurred in which the animal 

 has been seen of a size ■ so enormous as far to 

 surpass the general measure of its tribe, and to 

 render credible the seemingly extravagant recitals 

 which sometimes occur in the works of ancient 

 authors. 



PIXNATA. 



We are now to take a view of the phmated 

 Mammalia^ or those in which the divisions or toes 

 of the feet are connected by webs; enabling the 

 animals, whose principal residence is in the waters. 



