Me AE S K, 
ieaps over the tremendous chafms of their a/ps, or from rock to rock: 
tread fo light on the fnow, with their true and falfe hoofs extended, as 
{carcely to leave a mark; while the dogs which purfue them fink in, 
and are forced to defift from the chafe: are fo fond of liberty as 
never to be kept alive in captivity. They feed on Jichens, arbutus, 
rhododendron, and whortleberry-plants. ‘Their chafe is moft labo- 
rious: they are taken in fnares; or fhot by crofs-bows. placed in 
their tracks, with a ftring from the trigger for them to tread on and 
difcharge. The Zungufi fhoot them with bows and arrows. The 
fkins are ufed for bonnets and winter dreffes. The Rafians often 
fcrape off the hair, and have a way of preparing them for fummer 
cloathing, fo as to become as foft and fhining as filk. 
The two other hoofed animals of the north of 4fa, the Two- 
bunched Camel, and the Wild Boar, do not reach as high as lat. 60: 
the firft is found in great troops about lake Baikal, as far as lat. 56 
or 57; butif brought as high as Fekut/k, beyond lat. 60, perith with 
cold *. The Wild Boar is common in all the reedy marfhes of Tartary 
and Sibiria, and the mountanous forefts about lake Baikal, almoft 
to lat. 55 ; but none in the north-eaftern extremity of Sidiria. 
° Zimmerman, 357+ 
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CaMEL. 
Witp Boar. 
