NA'rURAL HISTORY. 
Q^U ADRUPEDS. 
THEIR GENERAL NATURE. 
U ADRUPEDS, afttr man, in natural 
hiftoiy, require the next attention, and 
for the following reafons. Being of limilar 
llru6ture with ourfelves, having inftinfts and 
properties fuperior to all other parts of ani- 
mated nature, affording great afliftance to 
man, and fometimes exercifing the greatell 
hoftilities, muft render them the moft inter- 
efliing part oD the creation, and claim the firft 
attention of the naturalifl. 
Siniilititde to man . — Like us they arc ele- 
vated above the birds, by their young being 
produced alive ; above the clafs of fillies, 
by breathing through the lungs ; above in- 
fers, by blood circulating through their veins ; 
and moftly above all parts of the creation, by 
being partly or entirely covered with hair. 
Since quadrupeds fo nearly approach us in 
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