NATURAL HISTORY. 
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-when impelled by hunger, they will e- 
ven devour infants. It is faid to be more 
perfeft in the internal formation than 
any other domeftic animal. The thick- 
nels of his hide, and the coarfenefs of his 
hair, render him infenfible to blows. He 
is naturally ftupid, drowfy, and inadlive ; 
and, if undifturbed, will I'pend half his time 
in fleep, from which ftate he never roufes 
himfelf but to gratify his voracious appetite, 
which if fufficiently fated with food, would 
caufe his body to become too heavy for his 
legs to fupport ; it would ftill, however, 
continue feeding, either kneeling, or lying. 
A very remarkable inftance of the vora- 
cious difpofition of this animal, is at this 
time to be feen in London, in a Warwick- 
fliire hog, which, though but a little more 
than three years old, meafures nine feet ten 
inches in length, five feet ten inches round 
the neck, and eight feet five inches in girth. 
His weiglit is ten hundred, two quarters, 
and twenty -four pounds. His chief food is 
barley-meal and potatoes, which he eats 
while lying on his fide ; but what is more re- 
markable of this furprifing animal is, that he 
never drinks. 
The hog is reftlefs at every change of 
weather, and greatly agitated when the wdnd 
is high. He is fubje<n; to all the difeafes in- 
cident to intemperance. When permitted to 
extend his thread of life, he will live to 
eighteen or twenty years. The fow goes 
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