PERUVIAN BAT. 
or deformed. Of the former kindj are aii those 
whose figores. appear to us agreeable and com- 
pleat ; because all then- parts and meii^bers are 
proportioned, all their movements and func- 
tions, are easy and natural. The latter kind 
of' beings, which to iis have a hideous aspect, 
comprehends all those whose qualiiies are nox- 
ious to man, whose nature is uncommon, and 
whose form differs from the ordinary figures, 
which conveyed cor primary sensations, and 
from which we derived those ideas that 
serve as models to our judgm^ent. The head 
of a man, on the neck of a horse; and it's 
body covered Vvitli feathers, and terminating 
in the tail of a Fish: represents a picture of 
enormous deformity ; for no other reason, than 
because it unites what Nature has placed at 
the p-reatest distance. An animal, like the 
Bat, v/liich is half a Quadruped, and. half a 
Bird — and which, on the whole, is neither the 
one cor the other — m.ust be a monstrous 
being: because, by uniting the attributes of 
two opposke genera, it resembles none of those 
models which are presented to us in the great 
classes of Nature. It is an imperfect Qua- 
druped, and a still more imperfect Bird. A 
Quadruped^. 
