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as we have been assured that our Indian travellers met 

 them near Basora, on their way home over land. 



As further illustrations respecting this interesting animal, 

 we possess copies of two Indian paintings ; the first repre- 

 senting a female of the highest Bramin cast, bearing the 

 Been, a stringed instrument, on her shoulders, and induc- 

 ing her tame antelope to follow, by holding out her beads ; 

 the second portrays an Indian and his wife, of the hill 

 tribes, approaching an old antelope under cover of a shield 

 of green leaves, the woman ringing a bell, while the man 

 shoots it with an arrow: in both, the figures of the animal 

 are spirited, and correctly drawn *. 



Whether this species exists in Africa, is a question 

 hitherto uncertain ; we have shewn that the Lidmee of 

 Shaw affords no decisive evidence, because he may have 

 mistaken the horns of Addax for those of the true Ante- 

 lope. Zoologists must not, however, expect to find this 

 species on the deserts of northern Africa. The banks of the 

 Nile, the Niger, and the cultivated tracts along the coast 

 alone, could have been inhabited by them ; and at present 

 the western part of Morocco appears to maintain a breed. 

 In support of this probability, we have in our possession the 

 drawings of a male and female now in the Museum of Phila- 

 delphia, reported to have been brought from Mogadore, in 

 that county. The pair are larger than the Indian variety, two 

 feet seven inches at the shoulder, in their structure more 

 robust ; the horns of the male about eighteen inches long, 

 in a straight line, very spiral, have at the base nine or ten 

 close and small semi-annuli, reaching two inches high; 

 above these are fourteen or fifteen complete rings, and the 

 smooth end is short and strong. The pair diverges less 

 than the Indian, are more bulky, though shorter, and of a 



* Copied from a book highly ornamented and painted with In- 

 dian subjects, formerly presented by a native Prince to Warren 

 Hastings, Esq., and brought home by him. 



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