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therefore, that they are the very fame; which were intended by 

 the i7f^re7</ Names, above-recited. As for the Zi^wer, which 

 is the laft we are to inquire after, it is rendred, in moft Tran- 

 flations, the Camelopardalis^ and in the AraVic Verfion Je- 

 raffa^ or (»-»W) Zuraffa: which is ftill the Eaftern Name of 

 that Quadruped. The Sj>riac explains it by Capra rupkola, 

 as we do by Chamois, which is the fame Creature ; though no 

 Inhabitant , as neither is the Ihex , as far as I can learn , of 

 thefe Countries. Bochart calls it Capre/e genm or a Species oi 

 the Roe ; which, like moft of his other Names, above-recited, 

 are too general to be inftrudlive. It is probable therefore, 

 from this Concurrence in moft of the Tranllations, (the Animal 

 itfelf being likewife of the c/e'<^« Kind,) that the Zomer may 

 be the fame with the Jeraffa. For though the Cameloparda- 

 lis, as it is objected hy Bochart, was a very rare Animal, and 

 not known in Europe, before Ctefaf^ Diftatorfliip ; yet, it 

 might ftill have been common enough in Egypt , as it was a 

 Native oi Ethiopia, the adjoyning Country. It may be there- 

 fore prefumed, that the Ifraeliies, during their long Captivity 

 in Egypt, were not only well acquainted with this Animal, but 

 might at different Times have tafted of it. 

 Thefe Am- p^j^ j^ jg j^q^ ^j^g ]s[umber or Plenty of the Animals, here 



mals not to -' ' 



be coniider- gj^m-j-,gj.^l-e(3 tj^j^t is to be regarded, but the Nature and Qua- 



ed accord- ' C3 ^ — 



ingjojhdriit-y of them; fo far, at leaft, as they agree with the Cha- 

 but chara- raflcrifticks, {Lev. ii. 3. Deut. 14. 6.) of chewing the Cud and 

 &c. ' dividing the Hoof. Neither are we to confine them altoge- 

 ther, to fuch Species only, as were known to the Ifraelites, at 

 the giving of the Law ; but to fuch likewife, as in Procefs of 

 Time, and in the Courfe of their Marches and Settlements, 

 they might afterwards be acquainted with. So that, upon the 

 whole, and according to the beft Light and Knowledge we 

 have, at prefent, in this particular Branch of the Sacred Zoology, 

 theieer, the Antilope, thelVildOx, the Goat Deer, theWhite- 

 Buttochs, the Bufalo, and Jeraffa, may lay in the beft Claim 

 and Pretence to be the Ade, Tzahi, Tachmur, Akko, Defjon, 

 Thau and Zomer of the H. Scriptures. 

 J?ti?RJSd ^^' ^^^^^ ^^ Quadrupeds, we carry our Inquiries into the 

 totheNa'ines]s[ames aud Characterifticks of Birds, we ftiall find the fame 



and Chara- /- i n.-ii • /- 



ftendicks of Difficulties, that were complained of above, ftill increahng 



clean and un- •"■ 



clean Birds. . UpOn 



