(Encyc. Plate XCV, fig. 5.) a. Represents a single block; and b, c, two double ones of different kinds, without flops; e, f, two double tackle blocks, iron bound, the lower one, f, being fitted with a swivel; g, a double iron block with a large hook; h, a small block; i, a top block; k, a royal block; l, a clew garnet block; m, the cat block, employed to draw the anchor up to the cat-head. See Cat-Head, Encycl.

CAPE OF LARGE SNOUTED BOAR, a species of the genus Sus, which, according to M. Vaillant, differs from every known species, and has not been accurately described by any writer of natural history. Buffon, indeed, in the Supplement to his History of Quadrupeds, has given a figure of it; but nothing like the head of the animal is discoverable, says our author, in that figure, all its characteristics having been omitted by the draughtsman. M. Vaillant, during his last travels in Africa, shot a monstrous boar of this species on the banks of Fisk-river, and in the country of the Greater Nimbaes. He describes it in the following terms: Its snout, instead of being taper and in the form of a proboscis, is, on the contrary, very broad and square at the end. It has small eyes, at a very little distance from each other, level with the surface, and near the top of the forehead. On each cheek a very thick cartilaginous skin projects horizontally, being about three inches... inches long and as many broad. At first sight you would be tempted to take these excrescences for the ears; particularly as the real ears of the animal, sticking as it were to the neck, which is very short, are partly concealed by an enormous mane, the brittles of which, in colour red, brown, and greyish, are 16 inches in length on the shoulders. Directly below these false ears is a bony protuberance on each side, projecting more than an inch, serving the animal to strike with to the right and left. The boar has, besides, four tusks, of the nature of ivory, two in each jaw: the upper ones are seven or eight inches long; very thick at the base, and terminating in an obtuse point, grooved, and rising perpendicularly as they issue from the lips: the lower ones are much smaller, and so close to the upper ones when the mouth is shut, that they appear as one. The head is a truly hideous object. It is scarcely less than that of the hippopotamus, to which at first view it appears to have a striking resemblance. Systematists, accustomed to view nature only according to rules established by themselves, will be far from acknowledging this animal to be a boar; for, not to mention its large snout, it wants incisive teeth in both jaws. Notwithstanding its wide muzzle, it ploughs up the earth to seek for roots, on which it feeds. It is very active, though large and bulky; running with such speed, that the Hottentots give it the name of the runner.