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AN UNCAGED ZOO 



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chew the cud but divide not the hoof ; therefore they 

 are unclean unto you" (Deut. xiv. 7; also Lev. xi. 5). 

 It is odd that such a shrewd man as Moses had some 

 doubt concerning the zoological affinities of the coney, 

 for he classes it with mammals as dissimilar as a camel 



This animal has many names. In the Old Testament it is the Coney. 

 In Africa men know it as the Rock-Rabbit or the Dassie. 

 Zoologists cannot agree on a suitable name ; some prefer Hyrax 

 and others Procavia. 



and a hare, but it does not " chew the cud." The fond- 

 ness of these curious animals for rocks is well set out 

 in Psalm civ. 18. The high hills are a refuge for 

 the wild goats ; and the rocks for the conies (also 

 Proverbs, xxx. 26). 



