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A DESCRIPTION OF 
yards, with such force as to bend the points of them 
against the board where they struck : and it is not impro- 
bable that a circumstance of this kind may have given 
rise to an opinion of its power to use them in a more 
effectual manner." 
SECTION VI. lEUeutata, or tootftlm Animate. 
THE SLOTH. (Brady pus tridactylus.} 
THIS animal, which is sometimes also called Ai, is most 
curiously formed. The arms or fore legs are nearly twice 
as long as the hind legs: and consequently when the 
animal attempts to walk or rather crawl, it can only do so 
on its hind feet, and the elbows of its fore legs. The 
claws are also larger than the foot, and bent inwardly, so 
as to prevent the animal from placing the ball of his foot 
on the ground. From these peculiarities in its construc- 
tion the progress of the Sloth on land is extremely slow 
