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thern parts of Africa, from the Mediterranean to 

 the river Bambou, which runs at the foot of 

 Mount Atlas. Hence the climate inhabited by 

 the hippopotamus extends only from Senegal to 

 ^Ethiopia, and from thence to the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



As molt authors mention the hippopotamus 

 under the names of xhtfea-horfd^ or the Jed-cow, 

 he has fometimes been confounded with the lat- 

 ter, which inhabits only the Northern feas. It 

 appears, therefore, to be certain, that the hippo- 

 potami, which the author of the Defcription 

 of Mufcovy fays are found on the fea-ihore 

 near Petzora, are nothing elfe than fea-cows. Al- 

 drovandus, therefore, merits reproach for adopt- 

 ing this opinion without examination, and main- 

 taining that the hippopotamus is found in the 

 North feas * ; for he not only does not inhabit 



the 



Kile into Upper Egypt defolates the fields by devour- 

 ing the grain, and particularly the Turkilk wheat. . . . He 

 is very rare in Lower Egypt ; Defcript. de i'Egypte, fur le Mem. 

 de M. de Maillet, par M. I' Abbe Ma/crier, torn. 2. p. 126. 



Sed quod magis mirandum eft, in mari quoque verfari 

 fcripfit P/inius, qui agens de animantibus aquaticis, commu- 

 nes amni, terrae, et mari crocodiles et hippepotamos praedicabat. 

 Idicirco non debemus admiratione capi> quando le'^itur in de- 

 ft riptione Mofcoyiae, in Oceario adjacefiti regionlbus Petzorae, e- 

 q::cs marinos crefcere. Pariter Odoardus-Barbola, Portughen- 

 iis, in Cefala obfervavit mukos equos marinos, a mari ad 

 prata exire, denuoque ad mare revert;. Idem repetit Edoar- 

 dus-Vuot, de hujufmodi feris in mari Indico errantibus. Prop- 

 terea habetur in primo volumine navigationum, multos quan- 

 doque naucleros in terram defcendere, ut hippopotamos in 

 vicinis prates pafcentis comprehendant : fed ipii ad mare 



fugicntes 



