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natural HISTORY. 
four months, and will often produce fifteen 
young at a litter. 
The tajacu, pecary. ormufkhog, ofSouth- 
America, has no tail ; the navel is on its 
back ; when wounded, it will call its tribe, 
which are never fatisfied but in the deftruc- 
tion of their antagonifts or themfelves. 
Of the hog, there are, the Guinea, Chi- 
nefe, Ethiopian, Indian, hog-rabit, and hogr 
cow. 
The RHINOCEROS. 
HIS extraordinary creature inhabits 
Bengal, Siam, Cochin-China, Quangfi, 
theiflandsof Java and Sumatra, Congo, An- 
gola, Ethiopia, and the country as low as the 
Cape. It is next to the elephant in fize and 
ftrength, and has a horn growing on his nofe 
two feet long. It being our lirft pride to 
dedicate to truth, we purpofely omit many 
fabulous accounts of this animal. Unlefs of- 
fended, they are very harmlefs. The flefh 
is faid to be wholefome. Ei-om its having 
only one horn, though fome have been 
found in Africa with two, this beaft muft 
certainly be the unicorn of holy writ, and 
the ancients. The Ikin is impenetrable to a 
muflcet ball. Being flow and unwieldy in 
its motions, nature has provided him with a 
horn, fo ftrong, folid,- and pointed, as to- 
enable 
