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osteological as well as in their superficial characters, they 

 would be found to approach each other in some particulars, 

 and to recede from each other in others ; to be in fact so 

 irregularly blended together on the one hand and separated 

 on the other, that real divisions between them could no 

 where be found ; that a certain number of analogies alone 

 must be permitted to constitute a generic separation, and 

 that such separation, when so constituted, to be received 

 correctly, must be looked on with the eye of a liberal lati- 

 tudinarian, and not with that of a systematic bigot. 



Thus when we find the Daman, an animal not much 

 bigger than a Hare, placed with the Elephant and the 

 Hippopotamus, the Horse and the Rhinoceros, we almost 

 involuntarily start ; and if told that this is on account of 

 anatomical analogies, we perceive at once that consistency 

 in one particular is sacrificed to the same principle in 

 another, and that disparity of size and physical capability 

 must be tolerated if we would divide animals by their 

 osteological analogies. 



Our indefatigable author has now ascertained that the 

 Damans of North and South Africa, which, whether one 

 or two species constitute the genus Hyrax in their anato- 

 mical characters, are remarkably assimilated to the Rhino- 

 ceros and the Tapir, and, consequently, to all the genera, 

 more or less, of the order Pachydermata. It is beside our 

 purpose here to enter into all the points of similarity in 

 the anatomy of these animals compared with each other, 

 which Cuvier has investigated in his Fossil Osteology ; 

 suffice it to say, that these points seem amply sufficient, 

 in spite of the existing and wide differences in dimensions, 

 to warrant the removal of the genus Hyrax from the Ro- 

 dentia, in which it had been previously placed, and the 

 transfer of it to the present order. 



The Dutch Colonists at the Cape call the South African 

 or Cape Hyrax, Klip-daassie, or the Rock Badger. Kolbe, 



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