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the leaf of a sort of mimosa, called by the natives kaneap, and by 

 the planters kamel doom. The tree being peculiar to the canton, 

 and growing only there, this may be the reason why it takes up 

 its abode in it, and why it is not seen in those regions of the south 



The Oirnffe. 



of A frica where the tree does not grow. This, however, is but a 

 vague conjecture, and which the reports of the ancients 3eem to 

 contradict. 



" Its head is- unquestionably the most beautiful art of its 

 body. Its mouth is small ; its eyes large and animated. Between 

 the eyeS; and above the nose, it has a very distinct and prominent 

 tubercle. This is not a fleshy excrescence, but an enlargement of 

 the bony part, the same as the two little bosses, or protuberances, 

 with which its occiput is armed, and which rise as large as a hen's 

 egg, one on each side of the mane, at its commenoement [ts 



