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QUADRUPEDS. 
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and thick: which being covered with long 
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coarfe hairs like briftles, makes it appear ftill 
more auk ward; 
The nofe, chin, lower Tides of the cheeks, 
and the middle of the forehead, are white : 
each ear and eye is inclofed in a pyramidal 
bed of black ; the bale of which inclofes the 
ear 5 the point extends beyond the eye to the 
nofe : the hairs on the body are of three 
colors the bottoms are of a dirty yellowifh 
white ; the middle black ; the ends alh co¬ 
lored, or grey , from whence the proverb, As 
grey as a badger. The hairs which cover 
the tail are very long, and of the fame colors 
with thofe of the body : the throat and under 
parts of the body are black : the legs and 
feet are of the fame color, are very fhort, 
ftrong and thick : each foot is divided into 
five toes *y thofe on the fore feet are armed 
with long claws, well adapted for digging \ in 
* Walking the badger treads on its whole heel, 
like the bear; which brings the belly very 
near the ground. Immediately beloW the 
tail, between that and the anus, is a narrow 
tranfverfe orifice, which opens into a kind of 
pouch, from whence exudes a white fubftance 
of a very fsetid fmdl; this feems peculiar to 
thfe badger and the Hyanti. 
Naturalifts once diftinguifhed the badger, 
by the names of the Twine badger, and the 
dog badger; from the fuppofed refemblance 
of their heads to thofe animals, and fo divided 
them into two fpecies : but the mod accurate 
obfervers have been able to difcover only one 
kind \ that, whofe head and nofe refemble 
thofe of the dog. 
Badgers are hunted in the winter nights, 
for their flelh and their Ikin: the hind quar¬ 
ters may be made into hams, not inferior in 
goodnefs to the bell bacon 5 the (kin, when 
drefled with the hair on, is ufed for piftol fur¬ 
niture ; the hair is frequently ufed for mak¬ 
ing brulhes to foften (hades in painting 5 which 
are called fweetening tools. 
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