96 History of Nature. [BooK VIII. 



out of their Snout ; and as many from their Forehead, like 

 Calves' Horns. The Hair of the wild sort is like Brass ; but 

 in others, black. In Arabia, Swine will not live. 



CHAPTER LIII. 

 Of Beasts half wild. 



THERE is no Creature that mixeth so easily with the wild 

 kind as the Swine ; and such Hogs in old Time they called 

 Hybrides (half wild) ; and this Term hath been transferred to 

 Mankind, as in the Instance of C. Antonius, the Colleague 

 of Cicero in the Consulship. And not in Swine only, but 

 also in all other Creatures, of whatever Kind there is any 

 one tame, you may find also the wild of the same Kind ; and 

 even of Men there may be said to be so many wild Kinds. 

 As for the Goats, they are changed into a variety of Forms. 1 

 There are (Caproe) Roes, 2 (Rupicaprse) the Shamois, 3 the 

 wild Goat (Ibex), 4 of wonderful Swiftness, although his Head 

 is loaded with very large Horns like Scabbards for Swords ; 

 by these they poise themselves when they swing round as by 

 a Rope from one Rock to another ; and chiefly when they 

 endeavour to skip along from one Mountain to another, and 

 fetch a Leap to what Place they please with a rapid Spring. 

 Of this kind are the Oryges, 5 the only Beasts, as some say, 

 that have their Hair growing reversed, and turning toward 

 the Head. To these belong the (Damae) Does, 6 and Py- 

 gargi; 7 as also Strepsicerotes, 8 and many others much like. 



passing through the skin of the snout, and curving round over the 

 forehead, so as to protect the head and eyes, render it applicable to 

 Pliny's description of the wild boar of India. Wern. Club. 



1 Lib. vii. 2. " No animal," says Pennant, " seems so subject to 

 varieties (the dog excepted) as the goat." Wern. Club. 



2 Caprece, Lib. xi. 37. 3 Rupicapra;, Lib. xi. 37. 



4 Ibices: Capra ibex. LINN. The Ibex. Wern. Club. 



5 Oryges, Lib. xi. 46, and vol. i. p. 75, note. In the 30th chapter, 

 the wild bulls of India are said to have their hair set backwards as well 

 as the oryx. Wern. Club. 



6 Damce, Lib. x. 37. The African species. Wern. Club. 



7 Pygargus, Lib. x. 3. 8 Strepsicerotes, Lib. xi. 37. 



