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{}{) Pup. Do the teeth of all these creatures resemble those of man ? Tut. They all, except those of bats, are very like those in the human race. Pop. It is rather mortifying to have man classed with apes. Tut. Nevertheless, the resemblance is very striking: in the eye-lashes, hands, feet, fingers, toes, nails, and other parts of the body. Pup. Do y ou call their fore-feet hands? Tut. Yes; they are inore like the hands of men than the fore-legs of quadrupeds. By means of these they can climb trees, pluck and grasp fruit : they have also. at least many of them. long tails, that have a remarkable prehensile power, by which they catch at a bough, and support themselves with ease and saft í v Pup, What are the characters of the second order Bruta ? . Tut. These have no front teeth in either jaw, and the feet are armed with strong, blunt, hoof-like nails. In this order are comprehended the elephant, the rhinoceros, the sukotyro, the ant-eater, the sloth, and some others. Pup. is not the sloth very slow in all its motions 2 Tut. It is and indeed all the animals in this order are marked by the slowness of their movemenis, when compared with other quadrupeds. The sloth, however, scarcely travels fifty yards a day. It lives principally in trees; and though it seems to walk painfully, as well as slowly, yet it climbs trees readily enough: this animal is famous for its miserable cry, and for its shedding tears. . Pup. Wlmat are the character; of the third order *