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as belonging to the East Indies. He then goes 

 on to say, that the resemblances are very great, 

 and the differences but slight. On the contrary, 

 whoever takes the pains to collate the two ani- 

 mals will readily perceive that hardly any quad- 

 rupeds of the same genus can exhibit more strik- 

 ingly different characters. 



