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XVII. 
MOLE, 
MO L 
i. Crass I. 
Long flender nofe, upper 
the lower. 
No ears. 
i] 
jaw much longer than 
' Fore-feet very broad, with fcarce any apparent 
legs before: hind-feet very fmall. 
34. Evro- Talpa. The Mole, Mold-Warp, 
BE AON. 
or Want. Rai /yn. quad. 236. 
Meyer’s an. 1. Tab. 2. 
Talpa alba noftras. Seb. Mus. i. 
Ds Gd apiahes 32. Lota. 
Sib. Scot. 11. 
Gef/ner quad. 931. 
Talpa caudata nigricans pedi- 
bus anticis et pofticis penta- 
Brit. Gwadd, Twrch daear 
Fren. La ‘Taupe 
Ital. © 'Talpa. 
Span. ‘Topo 
Port. ‘Toupeira 
dattylis. Brifon guad. 
203: 
De Buffon, vil. 81. Tab. 12. 
Talpa europzus. T’. cauda- 
ta, pedibus pentadactylis. 
Lin. fyft. 73. 
Faun Suec. 23. 
Talpa. Klein quad: 60. 
Br. Zool. 52. fyn. quad. 
No. 241.: 
Germ. Maulwerf 
Dut. Mol. — 
Swed. Mulvad, Surk 
Dan. Muldvarp 
HERE are many animals in which the Divine 
Wifdom may be more agreeably illuftrated ; 
yet the uniformity of its attention to every article of 
the creation, even the moft 
contemptible, by adapt- 
ing the parts to its deftined courfe of life, appears 
more evident in the mole than in any other animal. 
A fubterraneous abode being allotted to it, the 
feeming defects of feveral of its parts, vanith,; 
which, inftead of appearing maimed, or unfinifhed, 
exhibit 
