70 Difcover-f sfthe Bones of a ^ladrnpcd. 



Thefe circumftances multiply the points of refemblance between this animal and the 

 lion. M. lie la Harpe of the French Academy, in his abridgment of the General Hiftory 

 of Voyages, fpeaking of the Moors, fays*, "it. is remarkable that when, during their 

 huntings, they meet with lions, their hbrfes, though famous for fwiftnefs, are feized with 

 fuch terror that they become motionlcfs, and their dogs equally frightened, creep to the 

 feet of their mafter, or of his horfe." Mr. Sparrman in his voyage to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, ehap. 1 1. fays, " we could plainly difcover by our animals when the lions, whether 

 they roared or not, were obferving us at a fmall diftance. For in that cafe the hounds did 

 not venture to bark, but crept quite clofe to the Hottentots ; and our oxen and horfes fighed 

 deeply, frequently hanging baCk, and pulling flowly with all their might at the ftrong 

 ftraps with which they were tied to the waggon. They alfo laid themfelves down on the 

 ground, and ftood up alternately, as if they did not know what to do with themfelves, and 

 even as if they were in the agonies of death." He adds that " when the lion roars, he 

 puts his mouth to the ground, fo that the found is equally difFufed to every quarter." M. 

 de BufTon (xviii. 31.) defcribes the roaring of the lion as, by its echoes refembling thun- 

 der: and Sparrman c. 12. mentions that the eyes of the lion can be feen a confiderable 

 diftance in the dark, and that the Hottentots watch for his eyes for their government, 

 ^rhe phofphoric appearance of the eye in the dark feems common to all animals of the 

 cat kind. ' 



The terror excited by thefe animals is not confined to brutes alone. A perfon of the 

 name of Draper had gone in the year 1770, to hunt on the Kanhawa. He had turned his 

 horfe loofe witli a bell on, and had not yet gone aut of hearing when his attention was 

 recalled by the rapid ringing of the bell. Sufpcfting that Indians might be attempting to 

 take off his horfe, he immediately returned to him, but before he arrived he was half eaten 

 up. His dog fcenting the trace of a wild bead, he followed him on it, and i"oon came in 

 fight of an animal of fuch enormous fize, that though one of our mod daring hunters and 

 beft markfmen, he withdrew inftantly, and as filently as poflible, checking and bringing off 

 his dog. He could recolle£l no more of the animal than his terrific bulk, and that his 

 general'outlines were thofe of the cat kind. He was familiar with our animal mifcalled 

 the panther, with our wolves and wild beads generally, and would not have miftaken nor 

 fhrunk from them. 



In fine, the bones exift : therefore the animal has exifted. The movements of nature 

 are in a never ending circle. The animal fpecies which has once been put into a train of 

 motion, is dill probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be 

 lod, another and another might be lod, till this whole fydem of things fliould evanifh by 

 piece-meal; a conclufion not warranted by the local difappearance of one or two fpecies 

 of animals, and oppofed by the thoufands and thoufands of indances of the renovating 

 power condantly exercifed by nature for the reproduftion of all her fubjefts, animal, ve- 



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getable, 



