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tufted. The general price they brought at Drontheim was 

 about five specie dollars, or a pound sterling. This seems to 

 be more peculiar to Norway, as I never observed it during my 

 subsequent travels. Of the two others, which I met with in 

 Lapland and Sweden, one that I saw at Umea measured 

 from the muzzle to the beginning of the tail five feet eleven 

 inches, and the tail was hardly two inches. The appearance 

 of the skin in every respect so much resembled that of the 

 leopard, that I should have suspected it to have belonged to 

 this animal, had it not been for its tufted ears, and the length 

 and superior thickness of the fur. The tliird sjiecies which 

 I met with in Swedish Lapland differed also materially from 

 tile other two, being of a uniform reddish-brown colour. In 

 length it exceeded five feet. This, which I imagine to be the 

 same as the North American lynx, and the animal most com- 

 monly known by the name of the lynx, I have seen alive in 

 collections in this country, though of a nmch smaller size, be- 

 ing in appearance not vmlike a large cat, but much more ro- 

 bust, and of a thicker make. The variety of names given 

 to the lynx has tended greatly to peri^lex naturalists, and been 

 the occasion of much confusion respecting this animal ; and 

 it seems singular, that although it has been represented as 

 comparatively ot small size, the dimensions of those above de- 

 scribed would place it on an equality with the panther; and in 

 length it would greatly exceed both the leopard and the 

 ounce, though its height, which hardly equals tliat of the 

 wolf, may cause it to appear more diminutive. Its claws, which 

 are not much inferior to those of the tiger, must render it a 

 very formidable antagonist. In the northern forests it preys 

 chiefly upon game, not only winged, but four-footed ; and 

 should it chance to come near the abode of man, it will make 

 great ravages in the sheepfold of the farmer." 



MR. BELZONl'.S PROGRESS IN AFRICA. 



It must be known to many of our readers that this enter- 

 prising traveller, who made so many valuable discoveries in 

 Egyjit and Nubia, is now on another journey in Africa. The 

 following letter was lately received from him by a gentleman 

 belonging to the University of Cambridge : 



" Ftiz (Capital of Morocco), 5th May. 



" In the short letter I wrote to you from Tangier, dated the 

 10th of April, I informed you that I Iiad gained permission 

 from His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco to enter his coun- 

 try as far as Fez, and that I had great liopes of obtaining liis 

 permission to penetrate further south. I stated also, notwith- 

 standmg the great charges upon niy purse, unsupported as I 



am. 



