The large amount of nervous tissue devoted to processing and integrating information coming from the mystacials indicates their importance as sense organs, perhaps most importantly when the snout is being directed towards prey.

And Satyres, that in stades and gloomy dimbles dwell, Runne whooting to the hills to clappe their rude[r] hands.

The President […] was of opinion, that the arming and equipping vessels in the ports of the United States to cruise against nations with whom they are at peace, was incompatible with the territorial sovereignty of the United States; that it made them instrumental to the annoyance of those nations, and thereby tended to compromit their peace […]

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