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ClafsI.] QUADRUPEDS. 
GENUS VI. The H O G. 
SPECIES I. The H O G 
Ran fyn. quad. 92* 
Gefner quad. 872. 
Charlton ex. 14. 
Sus caudatus auriculis obiongis 
acutis cauda piiota. Briffbn 
quad. 106. 
NAmes 
/ BOAR 
Britijh, Baedd 
French , Verrat 
Italian , • Verro 
t »■ < 
SpanijJdy Berraco 
Portug. 
German , i£ber 
Dutch , Beer 
V. 
Buff bn. Tontt 5. 994 Tab. 6 . 17. 
Klein, quad. 25. 
Sus fcrofa Lin. fyft. 49. 
Sus dortb antice fetofo, cauda pi- 
lota, Faun. fuec. 36. 
s 0 w 
HOG 
Hwch 
Mochyn 
Truye 
Pore 
Porca 
Porco 
Puerca 
PuercO 
Porca 
Porco 
-/ 
Sauw 
Barg 
Soch 
Verkin 
Swiirt 
A CCOkDING to common ap¬ 
pearances, the hog is certainly 
the molt impure and filthy of all 
quadrupeds I we fiiould however reflect that 
filthinefs is an idea merely relative to our- 
felves; but we form a partial judgement from 
our own fenfations, and overlook that wife 
maxim of providence, that every part of the 
creation fhould have its rcfpeciive inhabitants. 
By this oeconomy oi nature, the earth is ne¬ 
ver overftocked, nor any part of the creation 
ufelefs. This obfervation may be exemplified 
in the animal before us ; the hog alone de- 
vouring what is the refufe of all the reft, and 
contributing iiot only to remove what would 
be a nufance to the human race $ but alfo 
converting the moft naufeous offals into the 
richelt nutriment: for this reafon its ftomach 
is capacious, and its gluttony exceffive; not 
that its palate is infenfible to the difference 
of eatables : for where it finds variety, it will 
reject the worfl with as diftinguifhing a tafte 
as other quadrupeds*. In the orchards of 
peach-trees in North-America, where hogs 
have plenty of delicious food, it is obferved 
that they will reje£I the fruit that has lain but 
a few hours on the ground, and continue on 
the watch for along time for a frefh wind fall. 
This 
* The ingenious author of the Ran Suecicus, has proved this 
beyond contradiction, having with great induftry drawn up tables 
of the number of vegetables, which each domeftic animal chutes, 
or rejects : and it is found that the hog eats but 72, and refufes 
171 plants, Amcen. Acad. 2. p. 262. 
