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CETACEOUS ANIMALS. 
them ; weary with slaughter, and rather exhausted 
by his own exertions than overcome by theirs. If 
killed in full health, the flesh of the animal is 
agreeable food ; provided the gland on the back 
be cut off, and the liquor which it secretes, care- 
fully washed from the carcase at the instant of 
death. 
There are probably several varieties of this spe- 
cies, distinguished by diversities of colour and 
size. 
This animal constantly refuses to copulate with 
our European swine. 
CETACEOUS ANIMALS. 
The cete, consisting of four tribes of animals, 
which live altogether in water, constitute Linnaeus's 
seventh order of Mammalia. They inhabit chiefly 
the seas of the polar regions, and many of the spe- 
cies are of huge size. From their external shape, 
ntnd habits, they seem nearly allied to the fish, yet 
they arrange with great propriety as an appendix 
to the four footed animals. It is true that they 
reside in the same element with the scaly tribes, 
and are, like them, endowed with progressive 
powers of motion in that element, yet in their inter- 
nal structure they entirely agree with the qua- 
drupeds. 
Like the land animals, they breathe air by means 
of lungs i this compels them frequently to rise to 
the surface of the water to respire ; and on this 
account it is that they always sleep on the surface. 
Their nostrils are open, and situated on the sum- 
