Crass I, HO. G. 
of the creation ufelefs. This obfervation may be 
exemplified in the animal before us; the hog alone 
devouring what is the refufe of all the reft, and 
‘contributing not only to remove what would be a 
nuifance to the human race, but alfo converting 
the moft naufeous offals into the richeft nutriment: 
for this reafon its ftomach is capacious, and its 
sluttony exceffive; not that its palate is infenfible 
to the difference of eatables; for where it finds vari- 
ety, it will reject the wortt with as diftinguifhing a 
tafte as other quadrupeds *. 
This animal has (not unaptly) been compared 
to a mifer, who is ufelefs and rapacious in his life, 
but on his death becomes of public ufe, by the 
very effects of his fordid manners. The hog du- 
ting life renders little fervice to mankind, except 
in removing that filth which other animals reject: 
his more than common brutality, urges him to- 
_ devour even his own off-{pring. All other domef- 
tic quadrupeds fhew fome degree of refpect to man- 
kind; and even a fort of tendernefs for us in our 
* The ingenious author of the Paz Suecus, has proved this 
beyond contradiction, having with great induftry drawn up 
tables of the number of vegetables, which each domeftic ani- - 
mal chufes, or rejects: and it is found that the hog eats but 
72, and refufes 171 plants, 
The Ox eats 276. rejects 218. 
Goat 449. 126° 
Sheep 387% IAI. : 
Horfe op Pia (212. Amen. Acad. i. 203. 
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