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therefore, we might protest .againsi ■'**££*£ 
brought against the Old Tes amen evidently doubtful, long before 
Hebrew name of the animal m question was evident :j ^ ad mit, 
Natural History was cul ^ ated ^ is the hare^n ^e still maintain 
for the sake of argument, that the makes a motion like 
tba the hare does not chew the cud t S>nce th mistake that the 
, „ the cud it has been supposed that Moses m demon- 
chewing the cua, reality it does not. -tLas tm , 
hare did chew the cud, whde m ^ty ^ ^ fonning an artdicud 
Crated ^ Naturalists have found u d the Ruminantia. All 
££— .< —■* “ »“"s Jzzz it- « r •' 
these animals have four s oma > na turalists have devised. The came , 
best marked divisions of animal red with the other Euim- 
though presenting some it follow that all animals which have 
nantia, belongs to this . do ^ itt ot her words, regurgitate 
not four stomachs do not chew t ^ting its mastication 1 I think 
their food habitually, for contrary. I have already 
not. Indeed, I am prepared to brrn P version 0 f the Bible coney. H 
referred to the word Shaphan, dictionary of the Bible,” I find the 
I refer to the article Coney in Smiths^ the annua co- 
writer of the article showing H.t S rimns , an animal abundant 
spending to the Hebrew word ns the J _ ^ ^ Scriptural desenp- 
Syria, and correspondmg m a cud Now x can addduce 
tion of the Shaphan, except chewm h does chew the end, 
undesigned testimony to the t ^ T he Hyrax is » 
though it does not belong to the ' “ list . be hardly knows where to 
most puzzling creature to the ^sment^c na ■ ^ y called the rock 
class it. Besembling the rabbit so closey ^ M r. Hennah, as 
rabhit,* the naturahst classes z loaical Society of London, shot many of 
stated in the transactions of toe Zol ^ ^ ^ the stomachs of 
the Cape Hyrax m the Cape o . ded with foo d scarcely masticated, 
those- he shot were always much d d oreatureSj and he makes this 
Moreover, he tamed a couple of tnese when everything 
Son : “ I have also heard it ^artment.” We have also 
has been quiet, and after gomg Q a „ e Hyrax is of the same 
the authority of Cuvier for we ^ undes igned testimony 
species as the flyror Sum H ^ ^minantia regorgiUtes 
tLhe fact, that an animal not hclon . comp letely masticating it. 
imperfectly-masticated food for the p > P t works on physiolo^ 
For instance, m the sa ( ^ . „ and m Pr over J „ Tlie conies 
,-i nmal, s. and the oocksjoi w . - hr . n , sp ~ m the roots. . 
