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the lower part of their fides ; and three ftreaks of whitifh hrlr in the 

 internal fide of the ear^ Of all animals in the world, the gazelle 

 has the moft beautiful eye, extremely brilliant, yet fo meek that eaftern 

 poets compare the eyes of their miftreffes to thofe of this animal, as 

 the highelt compliment. The gazelle is moft delicately and finely 

 limbed J its hair fhort, fine, and glofiy. Its hinder legs are longer 

 than thofe before ; is extremely fwift ; runs along in an even, unin- 

 terrupted courfe. Moft are brown on the back, white under the belly, 

 with a black ftripe, feparating thofe colours between. The tail of va- 

 rious lengths, but in all covered with pretty long hair ; and the ears 

 beautiful, well placed^ and terminating in a point j hoofs cloven. 



Of thefe animals, M. Buffbn makes twelve varieties j which is 

 much fewer than other naturalifts have made them. Firfiy the 

 Gazella, properly fo called, the fize of a roe-buck, and much re- 

 fembling it ; but diff'ering in the horns, which are black, hollow, 

 (like thofe of the ram, or goat) and never fall. The Jecond, the 

 Kevel, rather lefs than the former ; its eyes larger j its horns flatted on 

 the fides. T\iz thirds the Corin, ftilllefs; i:s horns fmaller, fmoother, 

 and their annular prominences fcarce difcernible. Some of thefe ani- 

 mals are often feen ftreaked like the tiger. T\\t, fourth^ the Zeiran, 

 which he fuppofes to be a larger kind of gazelle, found in India and 

 Perfia. The fifth, the Koba ; the fixth^ the Kob : thefe differ only in 

 fize, the former being much the largeft. The feventh he calls after its 

 Egyptian name, the Algazel ; the horns very long, being generally 

 three feet. The eighth, the Paz an ; called by fome, the bezoar goat. 

 As the algazel feeds on the plains, this is only found in the mountains, 

 of Egypt, Arabia, and Perfia. This is the animal famous for that 

 concretion in the inteftines or ftomach, called the Oriental Bezoar, 

 which was once in fuch repute all over the world for its medicinal 

 virtues. The ninth is the Nanguer, a native of Senegal ; differs 

 fomewhat in ftiape and colour; but particularly in its horns, which are 

 ftrait to near the points, where they crook forward, pretty much as in 

 the chamois they crook backward. The tenth is the Antelope, fo 

 well known to the Englifh, who have given it the name; is the fize of 

 a roe- buck ; refembles the gazelle, but difters in having deeper eye- 

 pits i the horns differ alfo, being about fixteen inches long, almoft 

 touching at the bottom, fpreading as they rife, fo as at their tips to be 

 fixteen inches afunder. They have annular prominences, but not fo 

 a diftinguifhablc 



