SLOTH. 
the noise, as to qui: it with hoiTor. lis note, 
according to Kircher, is an ascending and 
descending hexachord, which it utters only bv 
night. It's look is so piteous, as to move 
compassion ; it is also accompanied with tears, 
wdiich dissuade every body from injuring so 
wretched a being. It's abstinence from food 
is remarkably powerful ; one that had fastened 
itself by it's feet to a pole, and was so su- 
spended across two beams, remained forty davs 
without meat, drink, or sleep. • Tlie strength 
in it's feet is so great, that there is no possibi- 
lity of freeing any thing from it's claws, which 
it happens to seize on. A dog was let loose 
at the above-mentioned animal, when it was 
taken from the pole; after sometime, the Sloth 
laid hold of the dog with it's feet, and held 
him four davs, till he perished with hunger." 
The Sloth is said to brins: fortli but a single 
voung one at a birtl^, which she carries on her 
back ; and, according to ButVon, instead of 
three distindl apertures for tl\e discharge of 
urine and excrements, and for the purposes of 
generation, this animal has but one, which ter- 
minates in a common canal, as in birds. 
