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Monard, without offering any thing new. In fine, 

 to omit nothing relative to the hiftory of this 

 ftone, Koempfer, an intelligent man, and an ex- 

 act obferver, tells us, that, when in the province 

 of Laar in Perfia, he went with the natives of 

 the country to hunt the buck pafan, which pro- 

 duces the bezoar ; and that he faw the ftone 

 extracted ; and he allures us, that the true ori- 

 ental bezoar proceeds from this animal ; that the 

 buck ahu, of which lie alfo gives a figure, like- 

 wife produces bezoar, but that it is of an inferi- 

 or quality. From the figures he has given of the 

 pafon and ahu, we would be induced to think, 

 that the firft reprefents the common gazelle ra- 

 ther than the true pafan ; and, from his defcrip- 

 tion, we fhould imagine his pafan to be a he-goaf, 

 and not a gazelle, becaufe he has given it a beard 

 like the goats. Laftly, from the name ahu t 

 which he gives to his other buck, as well as from 

 his fecond figure, we recognife the wild he-goat 

 rather than the genuine ahu, which is our tzeiran 

 or large gazelle. What is dill more fingular, 

 Koempfer, who feems willing td determine the 

 fpecies of the oriental bezoar animal, and who 

 afTures us that it is the wild buck called pafan, 

 quotes, at the fame time, a man who, he fays, 

 is very worthy of credit, and who affirms, that 

 he felt the bezoars in the belly of the gazelle, at 

 Golconda. Thus all the pofitive evidence which 

 can be derived from Koempfer is reduced to this, 

 thatthereare two fpecies of wild mountain-goats, 



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