ruminating animals. 
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wool. They inhabit the known world, with the ex- 
ception of Australia.” 
In the form of the Ruminantia, we find a structure 
as admirably fitted for their wants as in the groups 
we have already surveyed. In the Quadrumana and 
CciTnivoTU, the fore extremities present marked ar- 
rangements for particular purposes : in the one, a 
power of prehension ; in the other, that of wielding 
an immense force by a blow; and the chest and neck 
in these are particularly powerful, as connected with 
the necessary organization of their extremities. The 
one is omnivorous, and generally procures its food 
by search or stratagem ; the other is carnivorous, and 
always exerts its great strength and formidable wea- 
pons for the seizure of its sustenance. The rumi- 
nating animals, on the contrary, subsist entirely on 
tlie produce of the vegetable world. * They inha- 
bit the forsaken plains, or vast forests, and even the 
iRore arid deserts of the tropics : they gain their 
livelihood entirely on the herbage and foliage which 
^^ature has generally in those situations so bountifully 
and variously supplied ; and where it is more scanty 
or limited, they possess a lightness of form, and swift- 
ness, which carries the herd in a few hours from the 
exhausted pasture to one fresher and more abundant. 
hi ^i' ^orsia, agreat proportion of the food of the small 
rows (zebu) and sheep is dried fish, a little salted, 
daf*^ become very fond of this, mixed with pounded 
■tnA * natives assort that both the quantity 
^ r improved.-Fr«scr’. Travell, 
'JU0le:l from Jameson's Journal 
