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disputes with liim : " I think," says he, *' that 

 " Bellonius saw double, or that he relates more 

 *' than he saw *." In i6oc, Frcdcrico Zerenghi, an 

 Italian surgeon, killed two of them near Dami- 

 etta'f-. Fifty-eight years afterwards some janisa- 

 ries shot another on shore, where it had come to 

 feed, near Girge, the capital of the Said : it was 

 brought dead to Cairo, where it was described by 

 Thevenot|', Nearly about the same time, Pietro 

 Della-Valle observes, that one was kept alive at 

 Cairo § ; perhaps it was the same of which Theve- 

 not makes mention ; as those of which Maillet 

 speaks, as having been taken some years before he 

 was appointed consul, in 1692, are also probably 

 the same which Zerenghi killed || : so that the last 

 precise date of the appearance of the hippopo- 

 tamus in Egypt would be in the year 1658. 



Indeed, since, or about this time, the hippopo- 

 tamus has no longer made its appearance in Egypt ; 

 the name seems also lo be lost with the race, for the 



* Comment, on Dioscorides, Pinet's translation, Lyons, J604, 

 page 158, col. I. 



■j- Hist. Nat. des Quadrupcdes par Buffon, article de I'Hip- 

 popotame. 



X Voyage to the Levant, by Thevenot, page 491. 



§ " 1 have seen in Cairo several living animals, such as ... . 

 " sea-horses." Voyage de Pietro Della-Valle, Paris, 1670, 

 lorn. i. page 319, 



II Defc. de I'Egypte par Maillet, part ii. p. 31. 



inhabitants 



