WILD BOAR, 
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The fat forms another peculiarity. It is 
not intermixed with the flesh, as in the human 
body, the dog, the horse, and other animals 
which have no suet; nor is it, like the suet 
of the deer, goat, sheep, Sec. placed at the ex- 
tremities of the flesh: for the lard of the Hog 
covers the whole animal, in the form of a 
thick, distin6l, and continued stratum, be- 
tween the flesh and the skin ; a phenomenon 
observable only in the whale and other ceta- 
ceous animals. What is still more singular, 
it never sheds it's fore-teeth, which always 
continue to grow. Besides twenty-eight grind- 
ders, it has six cutting teeth in the under jaw, 
and a corresponding number in the upper : but, 
by an irregularity, of which there is not in 
nature another example, the figure of the six 
teeth in the under jaw is different' from those 
in the upper; for, instead of being sharp and 
cutting, they are long, cylindrical, blunt at the 
points, and form nearly a right angle with 
those of the upper jaw, so that their extremi- 
ties apply to each other in a very oblique 
manner. Tusks are peculiar to the Hog and 
a few other animals : they differ from other 
canine teeth, by extending out of the mouth, and 
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