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CARNIVORA. 
same ease as it does among the quadrumana, and they 
- never possess the thumb to the fore feet ; their in- 
testines are not voluminous, apparently on account 
of the substantial nature of their food, and to avoid 
putrefaction, to which it might be subject if it were 
too long in passing through the body; and lastly, 
their jaws can open only vertically, and like a pair 
bf scissors, being destitute of lateral motion. 
