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en Cheat river, a branch of the Monongaheia, heard one 

 night, at a dlftance from their camp, a tremendous roar- 

 ing, which became louder and louder as it approached, 

 till they thought it refembled thunder, and even made 

 the earth tremble under them. The animal prowled 

 round their camp a confiderable time, during which their 

 dogs, though on all other occafions fierce, crept to their 

 feet, could not be excited from their camp, nor even en- 

 couraged to bark. About day light they heard the fame 

 found repeated from the knob of a mountain about a 

 mile off, and within a minute it was anfwered by a fimi- 

 lar voice from a neighbouring knob. Colonel John 

 Jitewart had thi& account from Wilfon in the year i 769, 

 who was afterwards Lieutenant Colonel of a Pennfyl- 

 vania regiment in the revolution- war ; and fome years 

 after from Davies, who is now living in Kentucky. 



Thefe circumftances multiply the points of refem- 

 blance between this animal and the lion. M. de la Harpe 

 of the French Academy, in his abridgment of the Gene- 

 ral Hiftory of Voyages, fpeaking of the Moors, fays* 

 " it is remarkable that when, during their huntings, they 

 meet with lions, their horfes, though famous lor fwift- 

 nefs, are fiezed with fuch terror that they become motion- 

 lefs, 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, chap, i i. 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 

 flraps with which they were tied to the waggon. They 



* Gentleman's, and London Magazines, for 1783. 



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