ioNG-TAILED FO^iCUPINE. 
Hare> round {{?x eats, and feet armed with 
daws. Instead of a large stomach, with an 
appendage shaped like a cowl, which seems to 
form, in the Hog, the shade between the ru- 
minating and other quadrupeds, the Porcupine 
has only a simple stomach, and a large cae- 
cum. The parts of generation are nor appa- 
rent, as in the Boar; and the testicles are con- 
cealed in the groin. From these chara^Sbers, 
S-dded to the short tail in most of the species, 
r.nd the long w^oiskers, we may conclude that 
the Porcupine makes a nearer approach to 
the Hare, or the Beaver, than to the Hog. 
The Hedgehog, which is armed like the Por- 
cupine with prickles, has a greater resem- 
blance to the Hog J for it's muzzle is long 
and terminates in a kind of snout. But, adcs 
BufFoD, ail thece resemblances being sligh:, 
arid the difterences conspicuous, the Porcu- 
pine uijcjuestionably constitutes a particuh:r 
species, totally distiuvfl from that of tiic 
Hedgehog, the Beaver, tlie H-are, or any 
other animal to which fancy may compare it. 
To these remarks of B'-ifton^ it may be cb- 
jedted, however, that there is, in the Porcu- 
pine, 
