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manner as the hind. The infide of all his legs are without 

 marks, fo are the neck, head, and ears, but a little above 

 the thorax is a large black ftreak which goes up along the 

 throat, and down to the point of the lower jaw. His nofe 

 is black, and above the point, for fome inches, is of a dark 

 colour alfo. 



The Hysena is one of thofe animals which commenta- 

 tors have taken for the Saphan, without any probability 

 whatever, further than he lives in caves, whither he retires 

 in the furnmer to avoid being tormented with flies. Cle- 

 ment* of Alexandria introduces Mofes faying, You mall 

 not eat the hare, nor the hyaena, as he interprets the word 

 faphan ; but the Hyayia does not chew the cud ; they are 

 not, as I fay, gregarious, though they troop together upon 

 the fmell of food. We have no reafon to attribute extra- 

 ordinary wifdom to him ; he is on the contrary brutifh, in- 

 dolent, ilovenly, and impudent, and feems to poiTefs much 

 the manners of the wolf. His courage appears to proceed 

 from an infatiable appetite, and has nothing of the brave 

 or generous in it, and he dies oftener flying than fighting ; 

 but leafl of all can it be faid of him that he is a feeble folk, 

 being one of the flrongefl beafts of the field. 



Upon the moft attentive confideration, the animal here re- 

 prefented feems to be of a different fpecies from the hyama 

 of M. de Buffon. This of Atbara feems to be a dog, whereas 

 the firfl fight of the hysena of M. de BufFon gives the idea of 

 a hog, and this is the impreffion it feems to have made upon 



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C!em. Alexan. lib. ii. Pzedagog, cap. 10. 



