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HOG.
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is lengthened into a moveable snout, the extremity of which is truncated, and expanded into
a circular disk, fitted for turning up the earth.
Cuvier remarks that there is an observable ap-
proximation in the Hogs to the Carnivora, es-
pecially in the form of the skull; and it is well
known that Swine search eagerly for worms, and
insects, and that they will not refuse the flesh of
larger animals.
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WILD BOAR.
The Wild Hog (Sus scrofa, Linn.) from which we may without much doubt trace the parentage of our common domestic breeds, was formerly the tenant of the dense forests of Britain, as it is still of the wooded parts of the continent. In the reign of Henry II., Fitzstephen mentions it with
