remarked that this difference is quite equal to that which has been
observed between the skull of the Negro and the European. 'Those
persons,' he says, 'who have no opportunity of verifying the fact,
have only need to cast their eyes on the figure which Daubenton has
given of both the former. I shall pass over,' he adds, 'the lesser
varieties of breeds which may be found among swine, as among men,
and only mention that I have been assured by M. Sobzer, that the
peculiarity of having the bone of the leg remarkably long, which in
the human kind is observed among the Hindoos, has been remarked
with regard to swine in Normandy. They stand very long on their
hind legs; their back, therefore, is highest at the rump, forming a
kind of inclined plane; and the head proceeds in the same
direction, so that the snout is not far from the ground.'

"'Swine,' continues Blumenbach, 'in some countries have degenerated
into races which, in singularity, far exceed every thing that has
been found strange in bodily variety among the human race. Swine
with solid hoofs were known to the ancients, and large breeds of
them are found in Hungary and Sweden. In like manner, the European
swine first carried by the Spaniards in 1509 to the island of
Cubagua, at that time celebrated for its pearl fishery, degenerated
into a monstrous race, with toes which were half a span in length.'
There are breeds of solid-hoofed swine in some parts of England.
The hoof of the swine is also found divided into five clefts.

"Buffon had before remarked the varieties of the hog tribe. 'In
Guinea,' he observes, 'this species has acquired very long ears,
couched upon the back; in China, a large pendant belly, and very
short legs; at Cape Verde and other places, very large tusks,
crooked like the horns of oxen; in domestication, half pendant and
white ears.'"

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"A very remarkable fact relative to the oxen of South America is
recorded by M. Roulin, to which M. Geoffrey St Hilaire has
particularly adverted, in the report made by him on M. Roulin's
Memoir, before the Royal Academy of Sciences.

"In Europe, the milking of cows is continued through the whole
period, from the time when they begin to bear calves till they
cease to breed. This secretion of