WILD BOAR. 
than from the other khids: it resembles them, 
too, in the prolongation of the jaws, as well 
as in having but a single large stomach ; yetj 
by an attached appendage to this stomach, as 
well as by the position of the intestines, it 
seems to approach the cloven footed or rumi- 
nating race, and it likewise resembles them in 
the external parts of generation. At the same 
time, in the form of it's legs, in the habit of 
it's body, and in the number of it's progeny, 
it resembles the digitated quadrupeds. It also 
affords a kind of exception to two general 
laws of nature : one, that the larger the ani- 
mals, the less they are prolific ; the other, that 
digitated animals are the most fertile. Though 
of a size far beyond mediocrity, it is well 
known to produce more than other quadrupeds. 
In short, the Hog seems to be of an equi- 
vocal nature ; or, rather, it appears so to 
those who mistake the hypothetical arrange- 
ment of their own ideas for the common or- 
der of Nature, and only perceive, in the infinite 
chain of being, some conspicuous points, to 
which they would refer every naturLd pliaeno- 
menon. 
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