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8 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1770. 



Good Hope has sent out parties of men on inland discoveries, some of which 

 have been absent from 18 months to 2 years, in which traverse they have dis- 

 covered many curiosities. One of these parties crossed many mountains and 

 plains, in one of which they found 2 of these creatures, but they only caught 

 the young one, of which the inclosed is the drawing, as it was taken off by them ; 

 they endeavoured to bring him alive to the Cape Town, but unfortunately it died. 

 They took off his skin, which they brought as a confirmation of the truth, and 

 it has been sent to Holland.* 



Dimensions of a Male Camelopardalis, hilled in a Journey made in the year \7Q\, 

 through the country of a tribe oj Hottentots, called the Mamacquas, viz. 

 Length of the bead, 1 foot, 8 inches. Height of the fore-leg from the lower to the higher point, 

 10 feet. From the upper part of the fore-leg to the top of the head, 7 feet. From the upper part 

 of the fore-leg to the upper part of the hind-leg, 5 feet, 6 inches. From the upper part of the hind- 

 leg to the tail, 1 foot 6 inches. Height of the hind-leg from the upper to the lower part, 8 feet, 

 5 inches. 



IV. Experiments in Support of the Uses ascribed to the Ganglions of the Nerves, 

 in the Phil. Trans., vol. 54, and vol. 57. By James Johnstone, M. D. p. 30. 



Reprinted in this author's Medical Essays and Observations, 1795- 



F.Ofa New Species of the Manis,'\-or Scaly Lizard, extracted from the German 

 tRelations of the Danish Royal Missionaries in the East Indies, oj the Year 

 1765, published at Halle, in Saxony. By Dr. Hampe, F.R.S. p. 36. 

 October the 14th, in the evening, a rare and remarkable animal was, in the 

 city of Tranquebar, discovered in the wall of an oil-merchant's house, and with 

 difficulty killed. The Mallabars call it Alungu. It somewhat resembles a large 

 lizard; except the head and tail, which are alike as to shape, being both pointed, 

 the former not unlike a mole's. The whole length is a German ell and a long, 

 and its breadth half an ell. The tail is half an ell long, and its broadest part a 

 span wide. The fore feet are a quarter of an ell long, and the extremity of it a 

 thumb in thickness. The whole body, excepting under the belly, where it is 

 smooth for about the length and breadth of a man's hand, and under the feet, is 

 covered with hard, strong, sharp, and bright scales, shaped like a muscle-shell, 

 the largest of which are of the length and breadth of 3 fingers. Under its scale 

 come out 2 or 3 hairs like hog's bristles. On its fore-claws are 5 strong long 

 nails, on the hind-claws but 4. When pursued, it rolls itself so together, that 



• The animal described in this letter is now in the cabinet of natural history at Leyden, where I 

 have seen it this year. M. Matt. — Orig. 



+ This animal is the Manis peniodactyla of Linnaeus; the Short-Tailed Manis of Pennant ; and the 

 Pangolin of Buft'on. 



