. The Bible and science. the of them are covered with thick skin, they re-semble one another somewhat in the form of the body,and both pass a great deal of their time in the hippopotamus, however, has a large, broad head,Avith a very slightly movable upper lip, while that ofthe tapir ends in a snout, and is provided with anelongated movable upper lip. In the number of toes also the horse is unlike thehippopotamus, the horse having only one, while thehippopotamus has four toes on each foot. Between thehorse and hippopotamus, however, we find intermediateforms in the tapirs
. The Bible and science. the of them are covered with thick skin, they re-semble one another somewhat in the form of the body,and both pass a great deal of their time in the hippopotamus, however, has a large, broad head,Avith a very slightly movable upper lip, while that ofthe tapir ends in a snout, and is provided with anelongated movable upper lip. In the number of toes also the horse is unlike thehippopotamus, the horse having only one, while thehippopotamus has four toes on each foot. Between thehorse and hippopotamus, however, we find intermediateforms in the tapirs and swine. The tapir has four toeson the fore-foot and three on the hind-foot. Amongst 224 UNGULATA—RUMINATIA. SAvine we find generally four toes on both hind and forefeet, but only two of them are used in walking, and twoare small, and j^laced too high up the leg to be of muchpractical use; and in the swine, as in the tapir, wesometimes find the number of toes on the hind-footreduced to three. Tapir Rhinocerop. Fig. 11 G.—Bones of the maiius of pig, tapir, rhinoceros, and of horse. The lettersin all are the same as in ;. 85, page 169. U, ulna; R. radius , s, scaphoid ;td, trapezoid; tm, trapezium; m, niagnum; ?(, uncinate; c, cuneiform;p, pisiform ; I, lunar. I, II, III, IV, V, indicate the digits. In the next group of the even-toed ungulates, , comprising oxen, deer, &c,, there are twolarge toes on each foot, which look as if they had been PIGS AND OXEN. 225 originally one, and had become divided or cloven, butgenerally there are also, as in the swine, two smallertoes at the back part of the foot, and above the group to which the oxen belong, although itresembles pigs in the appearance of the foot, differs Fig. 117. -Foot of deer. from them in the digestive apparatus—a distinctionwhich was used by Moses to mark out the pigs asunclean and not to be eaten, but the oxen as clean andvaluable for food. In the pig there is only one simpl
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