AND LOWER EGYPT. l8l 



case * ; that he was carried clown to the depths of 

 the sea by the weight cf his body, and that he 

 only swam at the mouth of rivers -f-, 6cc, &c. It 

 has also been afSrmed, that he could not long 

 remain in the water. Finally, Forster was assured, 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, that the hippopotamus 

 there could not travel more than thirty yards at a 

 time :|:. It results from all that has been said 

 concerning this animal, that his natural history is 

 not yet well understood There is every reason 

 to suppose that more enlarged observations will 

 render it clear, that the hippopotamus of the rivers 

 is not the hippopotamus of the sea ; that they are 

 two distinct species ; and that it is from not mak- 

 ing this distinction, which appears certain, that 

 differences have arisen in the descriptions and ac- 

 counts given of those quadrupeds. It may even 

 be suspected, with some appearance of probabi- 

 lity, that the greater part of sea animals repre- 

 sented by travellers as the hippopotamus, arc no- 

 thing else than a species of great p/jcf^p. 



The hippopotamus was not the only savage 

 finimal held in veneration at Papnnnis ; the bear 



* Bellonuis, in his works before quoted. 



■(• See a physical and liistorical dissertation on the proof of 

 innocence or guilt by immersion, by Pierqnin, curd- of Lor- 

 raine, printed in i 731. 



X Second Voyage of Capt. Cook, French tri^nslation, vol. i. 

 p. 134. 



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