. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . muzzle truncated; necK short;nostnls at the extremity of the muzzle; anterior extremities longer than the posterior,with two or three unitecl toes, terminated liy very long, robust nails ; Cur thick and harsh,with the h\ir of the fore arms directed upwaids; stomach membranous, divided intomany sacs; intestines short; no ccccum. IVfAMM ALIA—SLOTH. 265 error in nature; for, even in the largest animals, and those whose oodiesare relatively longer than they are thic
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . muzzle truncated; necK short;nostnls at the extremity of the muzzle; anterior extremities longer than the posterior,with two or three unitecl toes, terminated liy very long, robust nails ; Cur thick and harsh,with the h\ir of the fore arms directed upwaids; stomach membranous, divided intomany sacs; intestines short; no ccccum. IVfAMM ALIA—SLOTH. 265 error in nature; for, even in the largest animals, and those whose oodiesare relatively longer than they are thick, not one of them is found to haveso many. The elephant has only forty, the dog twenty-six, and the humanspecies twenty-four, &c. This difference in the construction of the unauand the ai, supposes a greater distance between these two kinds than thereis between that of the cat and the dog, which have the same number of ribs;for the external differences are nothing in comparison with the internalones, which are the causes of the others. These animals inhabit SouthAmerica, and are especially numerous in Brazil and Waterton gives the following account of the sloth : This singular animalis destined by nature to be produced, to live, and to die, in the trees; and, lodo justice to him, naturalists must examine 1 im in his upper element. Heis a scarce and solitary animal, and, being good food, he is never allowed toescape. He inhabits remote and gloomy forests, where snakes take uptheir abode, and where cruelly stinging ants and scorpions, and swamps,and innumerable thorny shrubs and bushes, obstruct the steps of civilizedman. Were you to draw your own conclusions from the descriptions whichhave been given of the sloth, you would probably suspect that no naturalisehad actually gone into the wilds with the fixed determination to find himout and examine his haunts, and see whether nature has committed anyblunder in the formation of this extraordinary creature, which appears
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