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FAUNULA OF CHINA. 



II. Digitated, expofe them in the ftreets, or leave them to be murdered by the 

 midwives ; fuch horrid fpedtacles are frequent in the ftreets of 

 Peking and Canto?!, 



Wolf, N' 159. 

 Fox, N* 161. 



Cat. — Tigers, N* 180, were found in the province of Tche-tchi- 

 angt but are moft frequent on the borders of Tartary. In 

 fo very populous an empire one would have thought it 

 impoffible they could long remain unextirpated ; but in 

 the northern roads, hundreds of travellers are feen with 

 lanthorns carried before them to fecure them from thefe 

 ravenous animals. The hunting of the tiger was a conftant 

 diverfion with Kam-hiy in his progrelTes into Tartary. 

 At the age of lixty-nine, this great monarch died of an ill- 

 nefs contrad:ed by the violence of his exertions in the 

 chace of one of thefe animals. There are no lions in 

 China \ the firft ever feen in that empire, was a prefent 

 made to the emperor Tay-tfu, about the year 1324. 

 Leopard, N° 182, or Poupi. 

 Domeftic, N° 195, eaten in China. 



Angora, N' 195, a. white, with beautiful filkyhair, and hang- 

 ing ears, the delight of the Chinefe ladies. 



In the province of Sheji-fi, is an animal refembling" a tiger, 

 DuHalde,\.io^. 



Bear.— Brown, N" 208, or black, N'209. The paws of this, and 

 divers other animals, brought falted from Siam, and Cam- 

 bodia and Tartary, are highly efteemed in China. 



6 Badger. 



