ZOOLOGT. 



animal and vegetable substance, whether putrid or fresh ; 

 others devour frogs, lizards, snakes, and other reptiles ; 

 their dispositions are gloomy, and they mostly reside in the 

 depths of forests, and excepting the Hog or common Wild 

 Boar, they are all natives of warm climates. When domes- 

 ticated, the Hog affords a considerable portion of food to 

 Mankind, which has the faculty of taking salt more readily 

 than any other kinds of flesh ; on which account it forms a 

 principal part in our naval provision, as wh^n once salted it 

 remains perfectly good in the hottest climates^ 



Order VIL CETE. 



Feet wanting ; fms pectoral ; tail horizontal, flattened ; 

 ieeih in some cartilaginous, in others bony ; nostrils wanting, 

 in lieu of which is a Jistular opening, on the anterior or 

 upper part of the head ; claws or liair^ none. This order 

 contains four genera, the whole of which, though inhabiting 

 the ocean and possessing the habits and manners of fishes, 

 yet from tkeir similarity of structure, their being viviparous, 

 and giving suck, they necessarily class with the Mammalia^ 

 in common with which they possess a Heart composed of 

 two Auricles and two Ventricles^ warm red Bloody Lung* 

 that respire alternately ; moveable Eyelids ; Ears hollow, 

 receiving sound through the medium of the air ; lactiferoup 

 Teats ; Vertebrce of the neck, seven in number • Lumber 

 bones and Coccyx. 



Their food is mollusCcB and other marine productions. 



I, Monodon, Narwal. Te^^/t in the upper jaw, two, long s 



