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many smaller kidneys, that it might contain and evacuate the greater plenty of 

 serosities, to be found in a bear, because he has but little of insensible transpir- 

 ation, by reason of the thickness of the habit of his body, not favourable for 

 it. The brain they observed to be four times greater than that of the lion 

 they opened. The eyes exceeding little, the crystalline very oddly situated, 

 and drawn on one side of the axis of the eye. 



But that which is particularly taken notice of in the description of this ani- 

 mal, is, 1 . The strength of its temper and constitution, by which it is able, 

 though it have but a little stomach and strait guts (among which there is no 

 coecum) to digest with ease all sorts of edibles, raw flesh, fish, lobsters, in- 

 sects, herbs, fruits, honey ; supplying by the force of his temper the defect 

 of a commodious structure. 2. The small capacity of its liver and spleen to 

 receive excrementitious matter ; which argues, that the action of the natural 

 heat is so well regulated, that it is not subject to defect or excess. 3. The 

 singular faculty of increasing to a great bulk, by which, though it be born ex- 

 ceeding small, it grows a very large animal, its natural moisture being so per- 

 fect, as to render the parts capable of extending themselves, and of increasing 

 their magnitude without lessening their strength. 



The gazelle or wild African she-goat (the same with the dorcas or strep- 

 siceros) was of the size and shape of a hind, its hair fallow, except that of 

 the belly, which was white ; its eyes large and black ; the horns black also, 

 streaked cross- ways, 1 3 inches long, very sharp, pretty straight, but a little 

 turned outwards about the middle ; in part hollow, and by a sharp bone fasten- 

 ed to the head. Toothless in the upper jaw, as being of the ruminating 

 kind. Very cloven footed, and small-hoofed before, but thick-fleshed on the 

 hinder parts of the legs, like a camel. 



As to the imvard parts, it had a liver shaped like that of a man, divided into, 

 two lobes; and in the hollow part of the liver there were two lymphatic 

 branches, which fastened the trunk of the vena porta to the superior orifice of 

 the stomach. The substance of this liver plainly appeared to them glandular, 

 each grain of it being pierced, as they thought, in the middle, by reason of a 

 little red cleft they had, whence issued blood when pressed. And the cause 

 why these glands seldom appear unsevered one from another, may be, that 

 when the animal is in health they are spungy and filled out with blood, which 

 they are not when it is sick or emaciated, &c. 



III. Labyrinthus Algebras, Auth. Joh. Jac. Ferguson. Printed at the Hague 

 in 4to. 1667. 



There do not appear to be any methods of resolving equations in this book^ 

 but what were taught by former authors. 



