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CHAP, XVI. , 
Of the Hog. 
B Efore we ftall fpeak of the Nature of this 
Creature, we (hall confider the difference be- 
tween the the ypiU Bear, the tami Boar, the 
Pi^, Sow , zndtht Per CMpifie, which fome do think 
is rather a kind of Hedge-hog • as the ^f^islikeft 
to a man in his outward parts; fo the Author of 
that little Anatomical exercife , ( which Galen is 
fuppofed to have writ ) faith that a Hogo( allo- 
ther Creatures is liked to a Man in his inward partss 
whofe flefh is fo like to mans flelh, both in ftnell and 
tafte, that ( as Conradus Gefner faith ) feveral have 
eaten the one for the other, not difeoyering of it by 
cade or fmell ; thefe things premifed, I come now 
more particularly to fpeak of it. 
I, It hath exceeding hard hairs, of a deyottring 
gluttonous Nature, and therefore his head conti- 
nually looketh towards the ground, and never can 
look upwards, and by his feeht and continual fmel- 
ling of the Earth, he findeth Roots, Bones, Car- 
rion, Dung, and never refufeth any thing that he 
findeth. 
2. It is hot and mold ; and therefore it is that 
fometimes we fee hard fwellings grow about them ; 
fo that Butchers looking under t&ir tongues, will 
tell whether a Hog be good or no. Thofe Hogt 
which 
