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disease are rife enough without adding to them the unavoidable 
filth and putridity of innumerable slaughter-houses ! The reason- 
able plan is evidently to send, not live cattle, but dead meat, to 
great towns and cities, and to locate in the country the processes 
by which the various parts of the animal are rendered serviceable 
to man. There the free winds sweep away what would be the 
cause of pestilence in crowded streets and alleys ; and there the 
residuum , of whatever nature, is in its proper place to be applied 
again to the fertilisation of the earth . — Railway Bell. 
An Anatomical Description of the Hedgehog. 
By Alexander Pitfield, Esq. 
Two hedgehogs were dissected — one a male and the other a 
female. The nose in both was short and round, better resembling 
the nose of a dog than the snout of a swine. They were of that 
species of hedgehog termed by Mathiolus, canina , one of which 
partakes of the dog and the other of the hog. 
They both had the head, back, and flanks covered with prickles. 
The nose, throat, belly, and feet were only interspersed with very 
small and white hair. Hermolaus says that the hedgehog has 
prickles all over the body except on the nose and paws ; but we 
found this false in one of our subjects, who had no prickles on the 
belly : those on the back and sides, approaching each other, did 
entirely cover the belly. 
The whole animal was of one colour ; the skin, hair, and prickles 
being of a dark yellowish grey. The prickles were an inch and a 
half long, and very different from those of the porcupine, for they 
were somewhat flat, and like to the prickles of the outward shells 
of chestnuts. The paws were composed of five toes, of which there 
were three large ones in the middle, and two small ones on each 
side. They had long, pointed, and hollow claws, of the figure of a 
pen. 
The teeth were disposed in such a manner, that below were 
only the molares and incisores. These last were somewhat 
longer than the molares. At the top there were no incisores, but 
only two canini. 
The female had eight teats, or two ranges at the pectoral muscle. 
The liver had seven lobes, one of which was divided into two. 
The gall-bladder was in the centre of the two upper lobes, that 
were largest. Its form was oval. The venae lactse were white, 
and apparent in the mesentery. The receptacle of the chyle was 
large and full. The spleen was laid on the ventricle, to which it 
was attached by twelve branches from the vas breve. The pan- 
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