footed onely before, 6c whole behind, but ours was no 
fuch monjier j nor were thofe obierved by F. Gregorius & 
abundance more. YqX. Arijiotle^ and P/^wy too, acknow- 
ledge there are Swine^ that are Solipedes. 
Our Hog had no Tayle. Cauda eft nulla, Saith G. Pi/o, 
but I wonder why then, he fliould fuffer his Ficture-Dravp' 
to give him one, as in his^^^r^. Iny(?«//(?whe wears a 
Tayle too j who feldome mifles the tranlcribing the Errors 
of thofe before him^tho he might have borrowed a far bet- 
ter picture out of Harnande\. P. Martyr mentions, that 
the Spaniards met with fome fuchTayHefs Hogs in Vraba, 
Erat tarn exigua ejus modi j4pris Cauda ^ ut prorfm abfctffa 
judicaretur. Nor is it any wonder that amongft the Swtne 
J^nd, fome have Tayles, and others none : for we fee the 
fame thing in Mun^eys too. 
But what is moft particular in our i^^i?^, and makes the 
greateft wonder and differences it, from any other Ani- 
mal 1 know of in the World i is the Teat or Navill or Fora- 
men rather on the hinder part of the back. All who 
mention this Animal ; look on this, as a thing fo extraor- 
dinary, and uncommon i that I know not how their ama- 
zement has fo far clouded their reafon, as to betray them 
into moft extravagant Conjedures, and opinions con- 
cerning it. Not any one, as I have met with, affording 
the lealt glimmering ofa probable truth. But becaufe an 
account o£ this part, will be fomewhat large ; I lhallgive 
it the laft ^ and fhall now take a furvey of its inward organs. 
Onely fhall premife in fhort what the writers of the Na- 
turall Hijiory of the Indies, have given us of the nature 
of the Taj am, and the places where tis bred. 
Hieron, e B en^onus m^ntiom they are in Panama, xnd. 
new Spaines ^ Gomara tells us, they are in 'Nicaragua; ^ Ome- 
dus faith, they are found in Terra fir ma \ and^ Leri us 
whites, they are in Brajile too. They are ufually met 
^ G. Pifo de urnulque re Mar. & Med. I p. 9S. ^ Hieron. bcnzcn 
Amencsep. 5. f Comnra Hut. Gen. Indiir. I. 5-. c. 204. s Qviedus lu km 
iLario India; Gccidenral. ^ j^crius in Navivigat BrafiL 
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