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of the reem^I. Job* makes frequent allufion to his great 

 ftrength, and ferocity, and indocility. He afks, Will the 

 reem be willing to ferve thee, or abide by thy crib ? that is, 

 Will he willingly come into thy flable, and eat at thy man- 

 ger ? And again, Canft thou bind the reem with a band 

 in the furrow, and will he harrow the vallies after thee f ? 

 In other words, Canft thou make him go in the plow or 

 harrows .? 



Isaiah J, who of all the prophets feem to have known 

 Egypt and Ethiopia the belt, when prophecying about the 

 deftruction of Idumea, fays, that the reem mall come down 

 with the fat cattle ; a proof that he knew his habitation was 

 in the neighbourhood. In the fame manner as when fore- 

 telling the defolation of Egypt, he mentions as one man- 

 ner of effecting it, the bringing down, the fly § from Ethio- 

 pia to meet the cattle in the defert, and among the bufhes, 

 and deftroy them there, where that infect did not ordinari- 

 ly come but on command ||, and where the cattle fled every 

 year to fave themfelves from that infect. 



The Rhinoceros, in Geez, is called Arwe Harifh, and in 

 the Amharic, Auraris, both which names fignify the large 

 wild beait with the horn. This would feem as if applied 

 to the fpecies that had but one horn. On the other hand, 

 in the country of the Shangalla, and in Nubia adjoining, he 

 is called Girnamgirn, or horn upon horn, and this would 

 feem to denote that he had two. The Ethiopic text renders 



the 



<jf Numb. chap, xxiii. ver. 22. 

 * Job, chap. &xxix, ver. 9. | Job, chap, xxxix. ver. 10. £ Ifaiah, chap, xxxiv. 



>yer. 7, § Ifaiah, chap. vii. ver. 18. and 19. || Exod. chap. viii. ver. zz. 



