THE ZEBRA. 



amined the czigithai had, at the fame time, com- 

 pared it with the zebra, they would perhaps 

 have difcovered a greater number of relations 

 than we are apt to imagine. In the Peterfburgh 

 cabinet there are Huffed fkins both of the zebra 

 and czigithai. Though thefe fkins differ in co- 

 lour, they may belong to the fame, or a. very 

 neighbouring fpecies. Time alone can remove 

 or confirm thefe conjectures. But, as all the o- 

 ther animals of Africa are likewife found in A- 

 fia, if the zebra and czigithai are not of the 

 fame fpecies, the zebra alone would be an ex- 

 ception to this general rule. 



Befides, if the czigithai is not the fame with 

 the zebra, it may be the Afiatic animal called 

 onager or ivild ajs. The onager mould not be 

 confounded with the zebra ; but I am uncer- 

 tain whether the fame remark is applicable to 

 the onager and czigithai ; for, from comparing 

 the relations of travellers, it appears, that there 

 are different kinds of wild afTes, of which the 

 onager is the moil remarkable. Perhaps the 

 horfe, the afs, the onager, and the czigithai, 

 conftitute four diftindl: fpecies : And, on the 

 fuppofition that they are only three, it is ftill 

 uncertain whether the czigithai be an onager or 

 a zebra. The fwiftnefs of the onager is men- 

 tioned by travellers, who remark, that he runs 

 with fuch rapidity as to efcape the hunters, 

 though mounted on horfes ; and they fay the 

 fame thing of the czigithai. However this 



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