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THE CAPE LION. 
Fexts Leo. Var. CapEnsis. 
AFrica, as we have already observed, is truly the native 
country of the Lion; and in no part of that vast conti- 
nent, we may add, does he attain greater size, or exhibit 
all his characteristic features in fuller and more complete 
developement, than in the immediate vicinity of the settle- 
ments which have been formed in the interior of its 
southern extremity by the Dutch and English colonists 
of the Cape. In speaking of the Bengal Lion, we have 
also pointed out the more striking characteristics by 
which the Asiatic race is distinguished from that of 
Southern Africa; consisting principally in. the larger 
size, the more regular and graceful form, the generally 
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