at Prsenefte. pi 



have a Power of charming and bringing down, into their 

 Mouths, Birds, and other Animals ; it may be prefumed, that 

 we have here, long ago, an Adion of this Kind, very perti- 

 nently recorded. 

 Anions thofe Animals, that are diftingiiiflied by their Names. "^^^^ "^°- 



<^ O J i KEPOG or 



and are likewife well known, we may give the firft Place to the ^«'"- 

 piNOKEPOC '. Now as this is the only Animal, that we are ac- 

 quainted with, which is (ufually) armed with one Horn, it has 

 been generally taken, by our Commentators, for the [D'">] Reem 

 or Unicorn, as the word is frequently tranflated. For what 

 has been commonly taken for the Unicorns Horn, (which may 

 have led feveral Authors into the Miftake, that it belonged 

 to fome other fwifter Creature, ) is not the Horn of a Qua- 

 druped, but of a cetaceous Fifli, called the Ner'vahl. And 

 moreover, the Rhinoceros, from the very Make and Strudture 

 of it's Body, appears to be the ftrongeft of Quadrupeds, the 

 Elephant not excepted. In expreffing therefore the Strength 

 oi Ifrael, Numh. ig. 11. it is juftly compared to the Strength 

 of the Reem or Rhinoceros. Reem then cannot be, as Schul- 

 tens and others have interpreted it, the Oryx or Buhalus, or 

 indeed any other Species of the clean Quadrupeds, which will 

 by no means anfwer to this Defcription of it. 



The Tirpic, from the Roundnefs of it's Spots, (for it hasTheTirpic, 

 no long ones) fliould be rather reprefented for the Leopard or 

 Tanther \ though both of them are Natives of thefe Countries ; 

 this of Eg)'pt, the other o^ Ethiopia. 



Perhaps the aeaina or Lionefs is rather delineated here than The aeaina. 

 the Male, to fliew the Fertility of the Species', which is fome- 

 times known to produce four or five Whelps. Trav. p. 145-. 



The AiNS is incorredly given us for Arrs; the n, in this The ain*. 

 Name and the c^infia, being incorrectly placed inftead of the 

 r. By the Figure and Attitude, it appears to be the fame 

 Creature, with the Quadruped (L), which the Ethiopians are 

 fliooting at, in the upper Part of the Pavement. Now, as the 

 Lynx is fuppofed to be the ©0)5 or Lupus cervarius of the An- 

 cients ; it can bear little or no Affinity at all, with this Crea- 



I In Bartoli'i Drawings, which will be hereafccr mentioned, the Name is PINOK^YCOC : 

 which, I prefume, muft be a Miftake. The ingenious Dr. Parfons (Pbll. Tranf. N°. 470.) 

 has given us a moft accurate Figure, as well as a veiy curious Difl'ertation, upon this 

 Animal. The initial Letter of the Preface is copied from this Drawing. 



Z X ture. 



