. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . there sits close all the day, while theprocess of digestion is in operation. Now, as ani-mals that ruminate first fill the stomach, and thenrepose to chew the cud, till the operation is finished,and then take more, so those that repose without ab-solutely remasticating the swallowed herbage, tillthe whole is digested, may be, with allowance forlatitude of expression, included a
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . there sits close all the day, while theprocess of digestion is in operation. Now, as ani-mals that ruminate first fill the stomach, and thenrepose to chew the cud, till the operation is finished,and then take more, so those that repose without ab-solutely remasticating the swallowed herbage, tillthe whole is digested, may be, with allowance forlatitude of expression, included among the animalsthus designated, namely, those that chew the Cowper probably meant no more, when hewrote of his hares, they chewed the cud all day,till evening. The above solution of the difficulty in question,suggested to us by a naturalist whom we consultedon the point, if not perfectly satisfactory, is at leastplausible. THE MOUSE. Order.—Rodentia, or Gnawers. These also shall he unclean unto you among the creeping things that creepupon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, etc.—Lev. xi golden mice —1 Sam. vi. swines flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse.—Isa. Ixvi. THE JEBEOA. Probably the animal called the jerboa is here in-tended. In size it is equal to a large rat, of a pale THE MOLE. 13 tawny yellow, lighter beneath, the tuft of the tailbeing black. Its speed is very great. In leaping itraises its body on the hind toes, balancing itself bymeans of its tail. The fur is soft and sleek, the earslarge and open, the eye full and round, the muzzleshort, and the head somewhat resembling a rabbitshead. It abounds in Egypt, Syria, and North Africa,burrowing in the sand-hills, or among ruins. TheArabs, Kalmucks, and Tartars, eat it freely. THE MOLE. Order.—Rodentia, or Gnawers. By the term Mole, as used in Isaiah, (ch. ii. v. 20,)the original of which is chepor-peroth, perhaps anyburrowing, darkness-loving animal may be intended,the w
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