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adheres to the teeth of ruminating animals ; 

 and it appears, from the numerous collection 

 of bezoars in the royal cabinet, that there 

 are elTential differences between the oriental and 

 occidental bezoars. Hence the goats of the 

 Eaft Indies, and the gazelles of Perfia, are not 

 the only animals which produce the concre- 

 tions called bezoars. The chamois *, and per- 

 haps the wild goat of the Alps, the he-goats 

 of Guiney t, and feveral American animals J, 

 like wife produce bezoars : And, under this name, 



if 



* In the county of the Grifons, balls as large, and fome- 

 times larger, than a tennis-ball, are found in the ftomach of 

 the chamois goat. They are called kemfkougnel by the Ger- 

 mans, "«ho alledge that they are as ufeful as the bezoar, 

 which likewiie proceeds from the ilomachs of certain Indian 

 goats ; Travels to Italy, <&c. by Jacob Spon and George H' heeler. 

 Near Munich, in a village called Lagreni, which is at the foot 

 of the mountains, our hoft ihewed us certain balls or brown 

 maiTes, nearly of the fize of a hen's egg, which were a kind of 

 tender, imperfect bezoar, commonly found in the ftomachs of 

 the roebucks. He affured us, that thefe balls had great vir- 

 tues, and that he often fold them to (hangers at ten crowns 

 a piece ; Voyage des Mijftonaires , tow. l. p. 129. 



f In Congo and Angola, when the wild goats begin to 

 grow old, lfones, refcmbling the bezoar, are found in their 

 bellies. Thofe found in the males are fuppofed to be belt ; 

 and the Negroes boat! of them as fpecifics againll many dif- 

 tempers, and particularly againft the cffecls of poifon ; Hiji. 

 gen. dss Voyages par M. f Abbe Pr j vqft, torn. 5. p 83. 



% Accepimus a peritis venatoribus, reperiri lapides bezoard 

 inovibus illis Peruinis cornuum expertibus, quas B'tcuinas vo- 

 cant ; (funt enim alia cornuta, Tarucae vocatae, et alias quas 

 dicunt Guatiacas) praeterea in Teuhtlalmagame quae caprarum 

 piediocrium paulove majori conftant magnitudine. . . . Delu- 

 de 



