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Quadrupeds. 



they there find asleep ; but vast pieces of the ice occa- 

 sionally detaching themselves from the mass, they are 

 carried with them to a great distance from the land, 

 where they perish amidst the most hideous and dreadful 

 howling. The language of the poet is beautifully 

 descriptive of this creature's insatiable fury : 



" By wintry famine roused, from all the tract 

 Of horrid mountains, which the shining Alps, 

 And wavy Apennitie, and Pyrenees, 

 Branch out, stupendous, into distant lands, 

 Cruel as death ! and hungry as the grave ! 

 Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! 

 Assembling Wolves, in raging troops, descend; 

 And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, 

 Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow : 

 All is their prize." 



THE JACKAL, (Cams Aureus,) 



COMMONLY called the lion's provider, is not much larger 

 than the fox, which he resembles in the appearance of 

 the fore part of his body. His skin is of a bright yel- 

 lowish colour. The Jackals often unite to attack their 

 prey, and make a most hideous noise, which, rousing the 

 king of the forest from his slumbers, brings him to the 

 place of food and plunder: at his arrival, the petty 



