THE LEOPARD. 
Fextis Leoparpus. Urn. 
Tue race of this wily and sanguinary animal, which is 
unsurpassed in all the terrible characteristics of its tribe, 
and yields to the tremendous and ferocious beasts, to the 
illustration of whose habits and manners our previous 
pages have been devoted, in none of their dreaded attri- 
butes, excepting only in size and strength, is spread 
almost as extensively over the surface of the Old World 
as that of the Lion himself. From the shores of the 
Mediterranean to the immediate neighbourhood of the 
Cape he is familiar to every part of the monster-bearing 
continent of Africa; while in the east of Asia his fatal 
spring and murderous talons are equally known and 
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