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the firft travellers that defcribe him. Kempfer * calls him 

 Taxus Porcinus, and fays he has briftles like a hog. 



We have an example of variety of this fort in the badger. 

 There is a fow of that kind, and a dog. 1 he dog is carni- 

 vorous, and the fow lives upon vegetables, though both of 

 them have been fufpected at times to eat and devour animal 

 food. 



THEhy2enaaboutMountLibanus,Syria,thenorthof Ada, and 

 alfoabout Algiers,is known to live for themofl part uponlarge 

 fucculentjbulbous roots, efpecially thofe of the fritillaria, and 

 fuch large, flefhy, vegetable fubilances. I have known large 

 fpaces of fields turned up to get at onions or roots of thofe 

 plants, and thefewerechofen withfuch care, that, afterhaving 

 been peeled, they have been refufed and left on the ground 

 for a fmall rotten fpot being difcovered in them. It will be 

 obferved the hysena has no claws either for feizing or fe- 

 parating animal food, that he might feed upon it,and I there^ 

 fore imagine his primitive manner of living was rather up- 

 on vegetables than upon fielli, as it is certain he fcill con- 

 tinues his liking to the former ; and I apprehend it is from 

 an opportunity offering in a hungry time that he has ven- 

 tured either upon man or beaft, for few carnivorous 

 animals, fuch as lions, tigers, and wolves, ever feed upon 

 both. 



As to the charge again £1 him of his diilurbing fepul- 



chres, I fancy it is rather fuppofed from his being unable 



Vol. V; R to 



* Kemp. p. 411. and .412/ 



