. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . , which are in perpetualmotion, in feeling and examining the substance on which theinsect may be feeding, and hence many entomologists have decidedthat they are the actual organs of taste. The tongue and gums of fishes are gristly and hard, the latterbeing generally densely crowded with teeth, and are, as inreptiles, hardly capable of all the refinement of taste; in fact,where food is swallowed whole, as with fish, and in an entire state,by conv
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . , which are in perpetualmotion, in feeling and examining the substance on which theinsect may be feeding, and hence many entomologists have decidedthat they are the actual organs of taste. The tongue and gums of fishes are gristly and hard, the latterbeing generally densely crowded with teeth, and are, as inreptiles, hardly capable of all the refinement of taste; in fact,where food is swallowed whole, as with fish, and in an entire state,by convulsive efforts, as with serpents, the power of taste must beextremely limited. Eliminating animals, although they show astronger partiality for some roots and grasses than for others, andthus have a prte-taste for them, experience the greater gratificationof the taste, in the second process of chewing the (The Sense of Smell, As we have seen, is in close connec-tion with, and indispensable to, theforegoing sense; but its power andutility, far from being limited to thatone end, are so essential to the exist-ence and necessities of animals, thatits development, exceeding by so muchthat of any other sense in delicacy midsusceptibility, is among the greatest THE SENSE OF SMELL. 219 phenomena of animal life. Its object is to distinguish effluvia —evaporation or particles of the minutest description — which, lightas the air itself, spread themselves with instantaneous rapidityover an extensive range of atmosphere. It is most probable that all animal and vegetable bodies giveout these infinitesimal particles to a most abundant degree, butour organs arc too blunt to detect them, although the savage racesand animals perceive them immediatel}\ The American Indianscan not only detect .the presence of man at a great distance,but can distinguish with certainty between white men and thoseof thei
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