4^ »n the tigtr. Sept, 12. 



Hiies to each other ; though differing greatly in 



size and colour, they are nearly allied to each other 



^n form and disposition, being all fierce, rapacious, 



nd artful. 

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No quadruped can be more beautiful than this anii- 

 mal ; the glofsy smoothnefs of his hair, and the ex- 

 treme blacknefs of the streaks with -which he is 

 marked, on a ground of a bright yellow, agreeably 

 strike the beholder. He is larger ' than the leopard, 

 though slenderer and more delicate. The principal 

 distinction of the tiger, arid in which he differs from 

 all other mottled beasts, is in the form of its colours, 

 which run in streaks nearly in the same direction as 

 the ribs, from the back down to the belly. On the 

 leopard, the panther, and the ounce, the colours are 

 broken in spots all over the body ; but in the tiger 

 they extend lengthwise, and hardly a round spot is 

 to be found on its Ikin. 



Of all animals the tiger most resembles the cat 111 

 fhape -, but in size it so much exceeds this common 

 domestic that the resemblance does not strike one so 

 strongly who beholds the live aninial, as when he 

 views a good representation of it in a print. Mr 

 BufFon informs us that he had been afsured by one of 

 his friends, that he saw a tiger in the East Indies of 

 fifteen feet long. He probably included the tail in 

 these dimensions ; therefore, allowing four feet for 

 that, it must have been eleven feet from the tip of 

 the nose to the insertion of its tail. 



The tiger docs not pursue his prey, but bounds 

 upon it from his ambulh with great elasticity, and 

 from a di&tance that is almost incredible. If they 



