438 THE AN TIL OPES, 



oriental bczoar proceeds not from one fpecies, 

 but from a number of different animals, and 

 efpecially from the gazelles and goats ? 



With regard to the occidental bezoars, we he- 

 fitate not to pronounce, that they are produced 

 neither by goats nor gazelles ; for it will be 

 fhown, in the fubfequent articles, that there are 

 neither goats, gazelles, nor even any animal 

 which approaches to this genus, throughout the 

 whole extent of the New World. Inftead of ga- 

 zelles, we find roebucks alone in the woods of 

 America ; inftead of wild goats and fheep, lamas 

 and pacos *, animals totally different, are to be 

 found in the mountains of Peru and Chili. The 

 ancient Peruvians had no other cattle ; and, at 

 the fame time that thefe two fpecies were partly 

 reduced to a domeftic ftate, they exifted, in ftill 

 greater numbers, in their natural condition of 

 liberty on the mountains. The wild lamas were 

 called huanacus, and the pacos vicunnas, from 

 which has been derived the name vigogne, that 

 denotes the fame animal with the pacos. Both 

 the lamas and the pacos produce bezoars ; but 

 the domeftic kind produce them more rarely 

 than the wild. 



M. Daubenton, who has inveftigated the na- 

 ture of bezoar ftones more clofely than any other 

 perfon, thinks that they are compofed of the 

 fame matter as that mining coloured tartar which 



adheres 



* See vol. V. art. Of the animals peculiar to ike Neiv Continent. 



