NATURAL HISTORY- 3s 
markable inftance of the voracious difpofition of this 
animal, is at this time to be feen in London, ina War- 
wickfhire hog, which though buta little more than 
three yearsold, meafures nine feet ten inches in length, 
five feet ten inches round the neck, and eight feet 
five inches in girth. His weight is ten hundred, two 
quarters and twentyfour pounds. His chief food is 
barley meal and potatoes, which he eats while lying 
on his fide ; but what is more remarkable of this fur- 
prifing animal is, that he never drinks. 
The hog is reftlefs at every change of weather, and 
greatly agitated when the wind is high. He is fub- 
jece to all the difeafes incident to intemperance. 
When permitted to extend his thread of life, he will 
live to eighteen or twenty years. The fow goes four 
menths, and will often produce fifteen young ata lit- 
ter. 
The tajacu, pecary, or mufk hog, of South Ameri- 
ea has no tail; the navc’*s on its back; when wound- 
ed, it will call its tribe, which are never fatisfied but 
in the diftruction of their antagonifts or themfelves. 
_ Of the hog, there are, the Guinea, Chinefe, Ethi- 
epian, Indian, hog rabit, and hog cow. 
HID IO 
- RHINOCEROS, 
"Tus extraordinary creature inhabits Bengal, 
Siam, Cochin China, Quangfi, the iflands of Java and 
Sumatra, Congo, Angola, Ethiopia, and the country 
as low as the Cape. It is next to the elephant in fize 
and ftrength, and has a horn growing on his nofe two 
feet long. It being our firft pride to dedicate to truth, 
we purpofely omit many fabuious accounts of this 
animal. Unlefs offended, they are very harmlefs.. 
The fiefh is faid to be wholefome. From its having 
) only one horn, though fome have béen found in Af- 
rica with two, this beaft muft certainly be the unicorn 
f holy writ, and the ancients. ‘Lhe fkin is impene. 
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