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compofed of flrong hair of a reddifh, brown colour, with- 

 out any rings or bands of blacknefs upon the points. In 

 the fame manner, the mane confided of hairs exactly fimi- 

 lar both in colour and fubitance, being longer as they ap- 

 proached the neck, where they were about feven inches 

 long ; and though it was obvious that, upon being irritated, 

 he could raife them upon his back, yet they were not rigid 

 enough, and were too long to have the refiftance of briftles 

 of the hog or boar. This mane reached above two inches 

 beyond the occiput between his ears, but then turned Ihort, 

 and ended there. 



From the occiput to his nofe he was one foot three inch- 

 es and a half. The length of the nofe, from the bottom of 

 the forehead, was five inches and a half, in fhape much 

 like that of a dog, the whole head, indeed, more fo than 

 that of the wolf or any other creature. The aperture of 

 the eye was two inches nearly ; that of the mouth, when 

 nor gaping or fnarling, about four inches and a half. The 

 0^1, from its bafe to its extreme point, was nine inches and 

 a quarter ; it was moftly bare, or covered with very thin, 

 more hair. From the infide of one ear to that of the other, 

 meafured acrofs the forehead, was feven inches and a half. 

 From the edge of the" opening of one eye to that of the o- 

 ther, meafured in the fame manner, it was three inches near- 

 ly. From the fole of the fore-foot, as it flood on the ground, 

 to the top of the back above the moulder, it was three feet 

 feven inches ; but his back was fmooth and plain, not riling 

 or curved as the hyaena of M. de Buffo n appears to have 

 been. The foreTeg was two feet in length, the foot flat, 

 and four inches broad. From the fole of the foot to the 

 middle of the fore joint was fix inches and a half, and this 



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