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COMMON H.OG. 
mouth. The snout is prominent, moveable, and has 
the appearance of having been cutoff, or truncated. 
The feet are cloven. 
Common hog. 
The wild boar, the stock or original of the 
domestic hog, is smaller than the tame hog, and 
does not vary in his colour as those of the do- 
mestic kind do, but is always found of an iron 
grey, inclining to black ; his snout is much longer 
than that of the tame hog, and the ears are shorter, 
rounder, and black; of which colour are also 
the feet and the tail. He roots the ground in a 
different manner from the common hog ; for as 
this turns up the earth in little spots here and 
there, so the wild boar ploughs it up like a fur- 
row, and does irreparable damage in the culti- 
vated lands of the fanner. The tusks also of this 
animal are larger than in the tame breed, some ot 
them being seen almost a foot long. These, as is 
well known, grow from both the upper and under 
jaw, bend upwards circularly, and are exceedingly 
sharp at the points. They differ from the tusks of 
the elephant in this, that they never fall ; and it 
is remarkable of all the hog kind, that they never 
shed their teeth, as other animals are said to do. 
The tusks of the lower jaw are always the most 
to be dreaded, and are found to give very terrible 
wounds. 
The wild boar can properly be called neither a 
solitary nor a gregarious animal. The three first 
years the whole litter follows the sow, and the 
family lives in a herd together. They are then 
called beasts of company, and unite their common 
forces against the invasions of the wolf, or the 
more formidable beasts of prey. Upon this their 
principal safety while young depends, for when at- 
