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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832. Excerpt: ... erable distances, us does the shark, but with different motives. GENERAL ECONOMY. Why art mammiferous animals the most useful to man? Because of the difference in their forms, theirgreat docility and their strength. From no other class of animals has man been able to obtain such faithful, serviceable, and valuable assistants; no others are So indispensable to him for his immediate use and support. Whole nations are enabled to supply nearly all their most urgent necessities with a single species of mammiferous animals: --the Greenlanders, with the seal; the Laplanders, Tunguses, &c, with the rein-deer; the Aleutians with the whale. The various uses of mammiferous animals to man, may be classed as follows: --for riding, draught, husbandry, carrying burdens--the horse, mule, ass, ox, buffalo, rein-deer, elephant, camel, llama, dog. For hunting and watching--the dog. For destroying mice and other vermin--the cat, hedgehog, anteater. For food--the flesh of oxen, the sheep, goat, swine, the deer genus, hare, rabbit, besides lard, tallow, blood, milk, butter and cheese. For covering and clothing, --furs, leather, hair, wool. For fuel and burning--tallow, train-oil, spermaceti. For writing, bookbinding, &c, --parchment, leather. For other miscellaneous uses--bristles, hair, antlers, horns, hooft, ivory, teeth, bone, whalebone, bladders. For glue--guts, tendons, and bones. For strings--guts, (cat gut). Blood for Prussian blue and other colours. Bones and hoofs for ivory black, &c. Fat and marrow for soap. Excrement for manure, fuel, sal ammoniac, &c. Lastly, for medicines--musk, castor, hartshorn, milk, and other articles.--Blumenbach. Why may several animals of this kind be also said to be directly or indirectly injurious to man? Because many carnivorous animals, par...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154223415 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154223418 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 234 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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