APPEND TX. til 



JERBO A.. 



HAVE already obferved that the Arabs have confounded 

 the Saphan with feveral other animals that have no 

 fort of refe'mblace to it ; there are two of thefe very remark- 

 able, the Fennec and Jerboa, of which I am now to treat, 

 As I have given excellent figures- of both, by drawings ta- 

 ken from the creatures alive, I have no doubt I ihall pre- 

 vent any confufion for the future, and throw fome light 

 upon facred'fcripture, the greater! profit and ufe that carr 

 refult from this fort of. writing.. 



If the rabbit lias: been frequently confounded with the : 

 faphan, and- flood for it in the interpretation of the Hebrew" 

 text, the fame has likewife happened to another animal, the 

 Jerboa, full more dimmilar inform and in manners from the 

 faphan, than even the rabbit itfelf, and muchlefs known, 

 The Jerboa is a fmall harmlefs animal of the defert, nearly 

 the fize of a common rat : the fldn very fmooth and mining, 

 of a brown tinged with yellow or gold colour, and the ends 

 of the hairs tipt with black. It lives in the fmoothefl plains 

 or places of the defert, efpecially where the foil is fixed gra- 



ii ve& 



