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born at Koldaghi, who states it to be the size of a cow, 

 having the elegant symmetry of an antelope, with reddish 

 hair, a white streak on the forehead and nose, bearing a 

 a single horn on the forehead, long and straight, and 

 the female to be hornless. In Mr. Barrow's travels, we 

 have another figure of the head of an unicorn, which may 

 still be of the present group ; and in the collection of ori- 

 ginal sketches of the animals figured in one of the caverns 

 of South Africa, designed by Mr. Daniell, the group re- 

 presents very obvious outlines of Hartbeests and other 

 animals, and among them a whole length of an unicorn : 

 but here we find most decidedly a pachydermous crea- 

 ture, such as a rhinoceros would be, if his propor- 

 tions were reduced into a slighter and more elegant form, 

 and the horn on the forehead lengthened to a slender 

 figure *. 



The Romans saw the Oryx in their games as is attested 

 by Martial, and we have shewn that even the straight- 

 horned species was known to the English Heralds of the 

 fourteenth century. In all probability the Dante or Lampt 

 of Leo Africanus and Marmol, figured in the collection 

 Of voyages by De Bry, belongs to this group. The White 

 Antelope, with lyrate annulated horns rode by the goddess 

 Chandra in Hindu Mythology, and which appears to be 

 the Ruru of the Sanscrit writings, and of the Institutes of 

 Menu, must likewise be referred to Oryx. From an au- 

 thority not cited, J. Mayor, in the Ephem. Cur. viii. (1677), 

 first described the Bezoar as procured from these animals ; 

 and Mr. Pennant was well informed when he asserted an 

 Oryx to exist in Egypt, for the figure of the animal is 

 found among the ancient hieroglyphical representations in 

 the tombs of the kings. 



* It is to be wished that Mr. Daniell would publish this curious 

 drawing which has a distant resemblance with the Onager Aldro- 

 vandi, as figured in Johnston, table xi. 



