j^ Some Inquiries and Remarks 



Kind including it's Species, it will comprehend all the Va- 

 rieties of the Deer Kind, (at lead as many of them as we are 

 to inquire after at prefent,) whether they are dillinguifhed by 

 round Horns, fuch as are peculiar to the Stag ; or by flat 

 Horns, which is the chief Chara6teriftick of the Fallow T)eer\ 

 or by the fmallnefs of the Branches, which is the Diftindion 

 of the Roe. 

 is^^'no^'^the II. The Tzebi then, provided it be properly, as it is uni- 

 ^Itihpe. ^^^verfally rendred the Roe^ could, at mod, be a Variety only 

 or Species of the 'Deer-Kind, and not a diftinft Genus itfelf. 

 It may be queftioned likewife, whether the Roe ', or, according 

 to it's Latin Name, Caprea or Capreolus^ was a Native of 

 thefe Southern Countries. For Aop^jt's, the Greek Name, may, 

 with more Probability, be rendred the Gazel or ^ntilope \ 

 which is very common all over Greece, Syria, the H. Land, 

 Egypt and Barhary. It is not likely therefore, that fo noted 

 an Animal as the Antilope, fliould want a proper and peculiar 

 Appellation to identify and diftinguifli it, from all other horned 

 Quadrupeds, If AopHs^s then is not this diftinguifliing Appella- 

 tion, what other can be appropriated to it ? Inalinuch as it 

 will be (hewn, that the Tygargm, the Strepficeros, the udddace 

 and Oryx, though noted Names, do more properly belong to 

 other Species. 

 The A.f<si« It may be further urged, that the Chara^lerifticks, which 

 lo^e- are attributed to the Aopy^*^, both in facred and profane Hiftory, 



will very well agree with the Gazel. Thus Ariflotle ' delcribes 

 the AopKcts to be the fmalleft of the Horned Animals, as the 

 Gazel certainly is ; being even fmaller than the Roe. The 

 AopWs is defcribed to have fine Eyes ' ; and, in thefe Countries, 

 thofe of the Gazel, are fo to a Proverb. The Damfel, whofe 

 Name was Tahitha, which is, hy Interpretation, Dorcas, (A6ls 

 9. 36. ) might be fo called from this particular Feature and 

 Circumftance. ^^/je-/ likewife is faid, {1. Sam.r. i"^.) to he 

 as fwift of Foot as the Tzehi \ and few Creatures exceed the 

 Antilope y in Swiftnefs. Moreover the Dorcas and Buhalus 



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