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remarks *, this animal cannot endure fait water. 

 He generally remains in the water during the 

 day, and comes out in the night to pafture. 

 The male and female feldom feparate. Ze- 

 renghi caught a male and a female the fame 

 day, and in the fame ditch. The Dutch voya- 

 gers tells us, that the female brings forth three or 

 four young at a time. But this facl: is rendered 

 fufpicious by the very evidence which Zerenghi 

 quotes. Befides, as the hippopotamus is of an 

 enormous fize, like the elephant, the rhinoceros, 

 the whale, and all other large animals, it muft 

 produce but one at a time : This analogy feems 

 to be more certain than the vague reports of 

 travellers. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



M. le Chevalier Bruce allured me, that, in his 

 travels through Africa, he faw a number of hip- 

 popotami in Lake Tzana, which is fituated in 

 Upper Abyffinia, near the true fources of the 

 Nile; and that, in this lake, which is at lead 

 fix leagues long by ten or twelve broad, the 

 hippopotami are more numerous than in any o- 

 ther part of the world. He adds, that he faw 

 fomeof them which were twenty feet long, with 

 very thick fhort legs. 



Addition 



f Hift. gen. des voyages, torn. 5. p. 95. 



