44- THE ANTILOPES, 



covering ; and infpe&ion alone is fufTicient to 

 diilinguiih the one from the other. 



4. in temperate climates, we often find ac- 

 gagrcpdi in animals, but never bezoars. Our 

 oxen and cows, the Alpine chamois '*, and the 

 Italian porcupine t> produce only aegagropilu 

 The animals cf hot countries, on the contrary, 

 yield only bezoars. The elephant, the rhinoce- 

 ros, the goats and gr.zelles of Afi'a and Africa, 

 the lama of Peru, &c. inltead of aegagropUi, 

 produce folid bezoars, whole iize and confidence 

 vary according to the animals and the climates 

 under which they iive. 



5. i he bezoars, to which fo many virtues, 

 have been afcribed, are the oriental kind, and 

 they are produced by the goats, gazelles, and 

 fheep, that inhabit the high mountains of Alia. 

 Bezoars of an inferior quality, which are called 

 occidental, proceed from the lamas and pacas 

 which are found in the mountains of South Ame- 

 rica. In line, the goats and gazelles of Africa 

 iike wife yield bezoars ; but they are not fo good 

 as thofe of Afia. 



From all thefe facts we may conclude, in ge- 

 neral, that the bezoars are only a refidue ot 

 vegetable nourifhment, which exifts not in car- 

 nivorous animals, and is peculiar to thofe who 

 live upon plants ; that, in the fouthern moun- 

 tains of Alia, the herbs being flronger and more 



exalted 



* See Note, p. 439. 



f We found an aegagropilus in a porcupine fent us from 

 Rome in the year 1763,—— 



