HI THE TAPIR. 



rather not to have had time fufficient to ac- 

 quire her full dimenfions. Inftead of the huge 

 maflfcs produced by the ancient lands of Afia, 

 inftead of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopota- 

 mus, camelopard, and camel, all the creatures 

 of thefe new lands are modelled upon a fmall 

 fcale. The tapirs, the lamas, the pacos, and the 

 cabiais, are twenty times fmaller than the ani- 

 mals of the Old World to which they mould 

 refpeclively be compared. Here matter is not 

 only ufed with a niggardly hand, but even forms 

 are imperfect, and feem to have failed, or been 

 neglected. Almoft the whole animals of South 

 America, which alone can be regarded as pecu- 

 liar to the New World, have neither tufks, 

 horns, nor tails. Their figure is aukward; their 

 bodies and members are ill proportioned ; and 

 iome of them, as the ant-eaters, the floth, &c. are 

 fo miferably formed, that they have hardly the 

 powers of moving, or of eating their food. With 



much 



Danta ; Condamine, J 63. Relat.de la riviere des Amazon$i t 

 Chriji. Acuna, torn. 2. p. 157. Hiji. de Par a guar, par Char- 

 (evoix, torn. Up. 32. ffifl. X..:. des J-,^:j, p.ir Jofepk Ac 

 ■ p. 204. 



Ante ; ffeerera, Dcfsripi. des Indcs : Occidentals, p. 25. Hifl, 

 da Indes, par Ma fee, p. 69. 



Beori ; H(fl. gen. des voyages, par M. PAbb? Prevot, torn. z. 

 p. 636. 



• ;phant hog ; Wafer's :■•'• ' n Datttpter, to!. 3. p. 4.00. 

 untain cow; Dampier, vqI. 2. p. 102. 

 iquaticus nmklfulcus ; Darrere, Hifl. Fr. Equ\n. />. 16c. 

 . ■ ■ • tamus, or river horfe ; Bancroft** Gt. 



