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find, that they must have been made up from two 

 different animals, one of which was perhaps the 

 true hippopotamus, and the other was assuredly 

 the Gnou *, a quadruped, of which our natura- 

 lists begin to take notice only about the end of 

 the eighteenth century. It is the same animal 

 of which fabulous accounts were given by Pliny 

 and jElian, under the name of catoblepas and 

 catablepon f . 



The Ethiopian Boar of Agatharchides, which 

 is 'described as having horns, is precisely the 

 Ethiopian Boar of modern times, the enormous 

 tusks of which deserve the name of horns nearly 

 as much as those of the elephant J. 



The Bubalus and Nagor are described by 

 Pliny ; the Gazelle by .ZElian \\ ; the Oryx by 

 Oppian ^[ ; the Axis, so early as the time of Cte- 

 sias ** ; and the Algazel, and Corinne, are accu- 

 rately figured upon the Egyptian monuments f f . 



* Antilope Gnu, Gmel. 



t Pliny, Lib. viii. cap. 32. ; and Julian, Lib. vii. cap. 5- 



J Julian, Anim. v. 27- 



Pliny, lib. viii. cap. 15. ; and lib. xi. cap. 37. 



|| ^Elian, Anim. xiv. 14. 



IF Opp. Cyneg., ii.'v. 445. et seq. 



** Pliny, lib. viii. cap. 21. 



tt See the great Work upon Egypt, Antiq, iv. pi. 49. ; 

 and pi. 66. 



