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Mph's hath 17. The Sorex hath 19. And the 

 Erinaceus 20. 



IV. GLIRES. Two fore^teeth in each jaw, 

 clofe together i but remote from the grinders. 

 No canine teeth. 



V. PECOR A. No fore-teeth in the upper jaw : 

 fix or eight in the lower jaw, very remote from 

 the grinders. Hoofed feet ; inguinal teats. 



VI. BELLUA. Fore-teeth truncated. Hoofed 

 feet. 



VII. CETE. Breathing apertures on the head, 

 Pedoral fins. Tail placed horizontally. No 

 claws. 



Abbreviated generic charadters. 



I. PRIMATES. : 



Howfoever the pride of man may be offended 

 at the idea of being ranked with the beafts that 

 perifli, he neverthelcfs ftands as an animal^ in the 

 fyftem of nature, at the head of this order ; and as 

 fuch is here defcribcd, with his feveral varieties 

 obfervable in the different quarters of the globe, 

 in a manner, and with an accuracy, peculiar to 

 our author, and which we may venture to fay, is 

 no where elfe to be met with. But man is not left 

 by LiNN^us, to contemplate himfelf merely 

 fuch-, but he is led to the confideration of what 

 he ought to be, as an intelligent and moral beings in 

 a comment on the Grecian Sage's didtate, Kno\// 

 THYSELF : by the true application of which, he 

 cannot but be fufficiently elevated above every 

 humiliating idea which can otherwife arife fromi 

 fuch an affociatjon, 



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