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The Hi/lory of ANI 
MALS, 
Equus lineis tranfverfis verficolor, SZflt 0$ 
The tranfverfely freaked Equus . Xhfld 
This is an extreamly beautiful animal, and, though in colouring fo extreamly dif- 
ferent from all the other kinds and varieties of the Equus, agrees with it in all other 
refpe&s; it is about equal to the common afs in (ize, but of a much more elegant fi¬ 
gure : the head is fmall and fhort; the ears are long; the eyes are large and bright, 
and the mouth is confiderably large : the neck is long, (lender, but elegantly turned 5 
the body is rounded and fmall, in comparifon of that of the afs: the legs are long and 
(lender, but very drong; they feem all bone, only juft covered with the (kin : the 
hoof is undivided, and of a deep brown : the tail is long and beautiful, but it is only 
hairy at the end. 
The whole animal is particoloured, or beautifully ftriped in a tranfverfe direction, 
with long and broad ftreaks, alternately of a deep glo(fy and (hining brown and 
whitifti, with fome abfolutely black : thofe of the body have their origin from the 
ridge of the back, and are carried down to the belly, furrounding the whole body. 
This is a native of many parts of the Eaft ; there are ufually feen great numbers of 
them together, in manner of flocks of fheep, and they are extreamly fwift of foot. 
All the writers on animals have defcribed it j they call it Zebra and Afinus Africanus 9 
s u s. 
np H E upper fore-teeth of the Sus are four in number, and are convergent; 
thofe of the lower jaw are eight, and are patulous: the canine teeth of the 
upper jaw are two, and they are fhort ; thofe of the under jaw are Angle, and they 
are exerted : the crown of the head is carinated, and the hoof is divided, 
Sus dorfo antice fe f ofo , cauda pilofa. < %l)Z COttittlOtt 
The Susy with a briflly back , and a hairy taih 
Defcriptions of animals fo common as the hog, the horfe, and the like, may feem 
impertinent and fuperfluous; but the utter difregard to certain objects, becaufe univer- 
Tally known at the time, has been the fource of one of the great deficiencies in the 
natural hiftory of the antients. There is alfo this to be faid farther, in defence of a 
fuccindt mention of the more remarkable and charadteriftical parts, that the creature, 
in it’s native wildnefs, is often unlike, in many refpedts, to thofe of the fame fpecies, 
which are kept about our houfes, and that the marks of fuch, while they preferve the 
charadteriftics of the animal, may alfo keep up a knowledge of it’s genuine condi¬ 
tion. Many authors, in regard to this particular fpecies, have diftinguifhed the wild 
boar and the tame one as if of diftindt (pecies, but they are the fame. 
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The head of the hog is large and long; the fnout is terminated by a rounded plane, 
in which are fituated the noftrils 5 the eyes are fmall, and not prominent s the ears 
are (horter in the wild date, than as the creature is kept tame, and the roftrum ap¬ 
pears longer, but this is principally from the tame hog being fatter: the neck is (hort 
and very thick; the body is extreamly bulky, the belly often hanging down almoft to 
the ground : the rail is (hort and hairy all the way along 5 the legs are robuft, but not 
very thick or long: the back is furniftied with a broad feries of bridles, and the 
whole body is covered with two kinds of hair in the wild date, a longer and a (hor- 
ter, but this is lefs diftinguhhable in the tame hog. 
The hog is a native of Germany, Italy, and many other parts of Europe j it is fond 
of mountainous places, and generally lives in thick woods. When fed with us, it 
grows fat in a degree beyond that of any other animal. No creature is more worth 
attention in regard to profit from keeping, for it is fed at fmall expence, and will 
produce 
