88 Of the Mof^'ic Pavement 



The camek- Thc Camelopardatis ' (K) or Jeraffa, (as it is called in Egypt, 

 yerap. °' and the Eaftern Countries,) is fufficiently identifyed by it's 

 fpotted Skin and long Neck. One of them feems to have caft 

 it's Calf ; as may be conjedured from the little Animal that 

 lyes below. The Came/oparda/is, as it chews the Cud, and 

 divides the Hoof, isfuppofed (p. 78.) to be the Zrmer, (Deut. 



14. s) 



The ccmpi- The Cercop'ithecus (2), that noted Egyptian Deity, is more 

 than once exprelTed : as is alfo the T)og (M) ; the [Latrator) 



The Grey. ^riuVts, accotdlng to it's fymbolical Name. If then we may 



^mibis. judge by the Shape and Fafhion of it, (which haslikewife been 

 figured upon a Cippt^s, Trav. p. 4.4.1 ) that particulnr Species^ 

 which might have been inftituted to reprefent this Deity, 

 fliould be the Cams Grains or Grey Hound. Now, as this Qua- 

 druped is more remarkably contracted, or, (according to the 

 Scripture Name,) girt in the Loyns, (Prov. 30. 31.) than moft 

 other Animals : as it is likewife one of the fwifteft ; our Inter- 

 preters feem to have judicioufly placed it in the Number of 

 thofe three AmmAs, (v. 19.) that go 7^e//and are comely in going. 

 At a little Diftance from one of thefe Greyhounds (m ), or 

 the \\X.t\Q Egyptian Wolf % as it may rather reprefent, we have a 

 fmaller Quadruped (N), that is threatned to be bitten by a 

 large gaping Serpent. This then, by the Size and Shape of 

 it, {hould hQ the Ichneumon ', which, Diodorus Siculus (p.6i.) 

 tells us, was of the Size of a Lap-Dog. 



Riding on I'he riding upon Mules feems to have been of no lefs Anti- 

 quity in Egypt, than in the Eaftern Countries = ; as appears from 

 the Mule and it's Rider, under the Walls of Memphis (^). 

 The Rider perhaps was fent to apprize the Capital of ytlexan- 

 def% Invafion : as the Footman behind him, may denote the 

 Mule itfelf to have been hired ; according to the like cufto- 

 mary Attendance of the Owner, even to this Day. 



1 Ka/*l1^o(J^peftt^f^f — JJVi' oji/o/oi' ij(H(nu TiapcftcAH. li yi TniixJMv -^ ;jgod{ (^viC^iti Caf.) nveifi /JM^i^tiv eo/M 



ifcuo (Ot^, 7B 54®' fi<>'f e;tsv77. TfelJ^»^®' JV mV usj-®- l|)ip7»,«V@' 'o^^f &c. Striib. 1. 16. p. 5'33. 



Ed. Cafaub. Nab'm iEthiopes vocant, collo (imiletn equo, pedibus & cruribus bovi, camelo 

 capiti, albis maculis rutilum colorem diftinguentibus, unde appellata Camelopardalis. Plin. 

 1. 8. c. 18. Figura ut Camelus, maculis uc Panthera. Var. ling. Lat. 



Dlverfum confufa genus Panthera camelo. Polit. Cap. 3. Mifcell. Vid. Sttppl. p. 78. 



2 tit ifi ItfKnvf louVrtf Jpif, (^ 7tu{ hinovf, i ttoWi? "^V i'^f'ms ihamnay fd^ovm, &c. Herod. Eut, 

 p. 129. 



3 a Sam. 13. 2j>. iKin^si. 33. EJlh. 8. 10. &c. 



This 



The lekneu 

 won. 



