WILD BOAR. 
tribes, but they a6lually do not resemble the 
cloven hoofed animals : because, though the 
hog appears to have two toes only, it has four 
concealed within. It has no resemblance to 
the digitated quadrupeds : because it walks on 
two toes only ; and the other two are neither 
so situated, nor so far extended, as to serre 
the purposes of walking. Cloven footed ani- 
mals have horns, and no cutting teeth in the 
upper jaw; they have four stomachs, chew 
the cud, &c. but the Hog has no horns, only 
one stomach, does not ruminate, and has cut- 
ting teeth both above and below. It is evi- 
dent, therefore, that it belongs neither to the 
gen as of whole hoofed, nor to that of cloven 
hoofed, animals. As little pretention has it to 
be ranked v/ith the digitated quadrupeds : for 
it differs from them, not only in the extremity 
of it's foot; but, still more, in it's teeth, sto- 
mach, intestines, internal parts of generation, 
&c. So that, in some respedts, it forms the 
link between the whole hoofed and cloven 
footed animals ; and, in others, between the 
cloven footed and digitated animals. In the 
number and arranG:ement of it's teeth, it dif- 
fers less from the whole hoofed quadrupeds, 
than 
