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alio laid themfelves down- on the ground, and itood up 

 alteitiately, 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 Buffon (xviii. 31.^ 

 defcribes the roaring of the lion as, by its echoes refem- 

 bling thunder: 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. The 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 ot the name of Draper had gene 

 in the year 1770, to hunt on the Kanhawa. He had 

 turned his horfe loofe with a bell on, and had not yet 

 got out of hearing when his attention was recalled by the 

 rapid ringing of the bell. Sulpeding that Indians might 

 be attempting to take off his horfe, he immediately re- 

 turned to him, but before he arrived he was half eaten 

 up. His dog fcenting the trace of a wild beafl:, he fol- 

 lowed him on it, and foon came in fight of an animal of 

 fuch enormous lize, that thoucrh one of our moff darins: 

 hunters and beft markfmen, he withdrew inftantly, and 

 as filently as poffible, checking and bringing off his dog. 

 He could recoUeft 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 

 panthef, with our wolves and wild beafts generally, and 

 would not have miftaken nor Ihrunk from them. 



In fi.ne, the bones exifl: : therefore the animal has ex- 

 ited. The movements of nature are in a never ending 

 circle. The animal fpecies which has once been put into 

 a train of motion, is ftill probably moving in that train. 

 For if one link in nature's chain might be loft, another 

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