of Harriers] 5rj| 



and receive timely warning of the leaft ap-* 

 proach of danger. 



' The eyes ingenioufly placed on each fide, 

 divided by the whole breadth of the fore- 

 head, not fituated in the front like a Dog 

 or Cat's eyes, to fee only the fegment of a 

 circle forward, but lidevt^ays, to obferve al- 

 mofl a whole circle, being formed fo as to 

 turn any way, to fpy impending dangers 

 from all quarters *, and fecure himfelf in 

 time. A farther remark, and worthy ob- 

 fervation, is, the creature, waking or lleep- 

 ing, perpetually watches j his eyes being 

 continually open, and fo protuberant, round 

 and large, the lids are far too Hiort to co- 

 ver them even when at fleep. 



View the breaft, how narrow, and at the 

 fame time how deep and capacious the 

 chefl ', for as the lungs are in a continual 

 ftate of violent expanfion's, during the time 

 he is hunted, and, by the prodigious fre- 

 quent infpiration and expiration, become in 



* Xenophon, who is minutely accurate in his defcrlptlon 

 of this animal, obferves, that*' when fhe wakes fhe winks 

 *-^ her eyelids, but when fhe fleeps flie keeps them continu* 

 H ^Ily open, without motion, having her eyes fixed." 



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