concerning the Scripture- Animals. 7T 



are generally named together, in Books of Natural Hift6ry ', 

 ;is the moft common and noted Animals of the more folitary 

 Parts of thefe Countries. Such are the yintilope and IVild Ox. 

 For the Lerwee and Lidmee, though they are equally Natives, 

 and perhaps the only other c/e^w Animals (the Deer and Bufalo 

 excepted,) that are fo, yet being not lo gregarious or frequently 

 met with, have not been equally taken Notice of The ^nti- 

 lope likevvife is in great Efteem, among the Eaftern Nations, 

 for Food ; having a very fweet musky Tafte, which is highly 

 agreeable to their Palates : and therefore the Tzehi (or ^nti- 

 lope, as I interpret it,) might well be received, as one of the 

 Dainties, at Solomons Table, i Kings 4. x^. — If then we lay 

 all thefe Circumftances together, they will appear to be much 

 more applicable to the Gazel or ^ntilope, which is a Qua- 

 druped well known and gregarious; than to the Roe, Caprea 

 or Capreotus, which was either not known at all, or elfe very 

 rare, in thefe Countries. 



III. As the Varna of Jtmim, or the Fallow Deer of our: ihtrachmur 

 Tranllation, may not be a Native of thefe Southern Climates ; L, lekLrei 

 or, provided it was, would be comprehended under the ^//e';ox. ""^ 

 Tachmur \ the third of thefe Animals, may, with more Pro- 

 bability, be rendred the Buhalus , {Bekker el wa/h, Trav. 

 p. i^r.) ox: U^ildOx\ as it is authorized by moft Tranflations. 

 Kow the Bekher el waJJj or Buhaht'S, as it was before obferved, 

 frequents the more folitary Parts of thefe Countries, no lefs 

 than the Gazel \ and is equally gregarious. Yet it is much 

 larger ; being equal to our Stag or Red Deer ; with which 

 likewife it agrees in Colour ; as the Scripture Name itfelf, 

 (which appears to be a derivative from i^^^) hommari ruhuit,) 

 may denote. The Flefli of it is very fweet and nourilhing ; 

 much preferable to that of the Red Deer. It was likewife re- 

 ceived, together with the Deer and Antilope, at Solomons 

 Table, i Kings ^. zt,. 



1 Herod. Melpom. p. 324. Str.tb. I. 17. p. y<58. hi ar'nlis qwdem iEgypti loc'is Capreoli, 

 (hijlead 0/ Dorcades, there btiu^ no other Latin Name to exprefs it , } vefcuntur d* Bubal i. 

 Ammian. Marcell. 1. 22. 



2 Tuhbtitotir { )t,*-:^-) the conefpondent Name in the Arabic Verfion, is defined, by 

 Jexicograpbi, to he Animal bicorne, iti filv'is degetis, baud diffimile cervo, at eo velocitis ; which 

 Defcription agrees very well wirh the Bel-J^er el wa/}}. 



T 1 IV. As 



