ANTELOKE. it 



are astonishingly light and elastic. These may be 

 considered as the general characteristics of all the dif- 

 ferent species, of which our limits permit us to enu- 

 merate only a few, although they are ramified into 

 almost numberless varieties. Oi these we shall re- 

 mark the 



BLUE GOAT, 



So named from its colour, which is a fine fylue, and 

 shines with a gloss resembling that of velvet. Its 

 belly is white, and beneath each eye it has a large 

 white mark: its tail is about half a foot long, with a 

 ^brush of long hair at the end : its horns are turned 

 backward, and three-fourths of the length, from the 

 'base, -is decorated with twenty-four rings : but the 

 uppermost quarter is smooth, and terminates in a 

 point. This animal inhabits the hottest parts of 

 Africa. 



THE WHITE ANTELOPE, 



Is supposed to be the pygarg, mentioned in the 

 book of Numbers. It is an inhabitant of Africa, amj 

 in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good ilope, 

 herds of several thousands sometimes cover the plains. 

 It must, however, have once been an inhabitant ct 

 Palestine, or at least of Egypt or Arabia ; for it is not 

 to be supposed, that the prohibitions of the Jewish 

 law would have comprehended a quadruped, found no 

 where but in the torrid zone, or in the southern parts 

 of Africa. 



The white antelope is a beautiful creature, about 

 two feet and a half high, and about three feet in 

 Irngth. The. distance of its horns, at the base, is 

 about one inch: from thence they gradually expand, 

 to the distance of five inches, then turn inwards 

 and approach within about three inches of eacs'i 

 other at the points : they are of a deep black, annu- 

 lated about halfway up from the base, quite smooth 

 towards the top, and terminating in a sharp point. 



The predominant colour of this beautiful animal, is 

 a light brown : its breast, belly, and inside of the 

 limbs, are white, as is also the head, with the exec; - 



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