126 APPENDIX. 



M and the abomination, and the moufe, mail be eonfumed 

 " together, faith the Lord *." The Hebrew word fignifies 

 moufe, and fo our Englifh tranflation renders it. But the 

 Arabic verfion calls it exprefsly the Jerboa, and claries it 

 with the abomination and fwine's flefh, that is, in the clafs. 

 of things in the higheft degree forbidden; 



There is little variety in this animal either in fize or co*- 

 lour, in the wide range that they inhabit. Towards Aleppo 

 they have broader nofes than the African ones, their bodies 

 alio thicker, and their colour lighter ; a thing. we always fee 

 in the Syrian animals, compared to the African. The firft 

 of thefe I faw was in London, in the hands of Dr Ruflel, 

 who has wrote the hiflory of Aleppo, of whom I have before 

 made mention. Haym publifhed an account of the Jerboa, 

 fo does Dr Shaw, but there exifts not, that I know, one good 

 figure of him, or particular defcription,, 



The figure given us by Edwards is thick and fliort, but of 

 all proportion. His legs are too fhort, his feet too large, he 

 wants the black mark upon his heel, the nails of his fore- 

 feet are greatly too long, and there is certainly a latitude 

 taken in the defcription, when his head is faid very much 

 to refemble that of a rabbit. Dr HafTelquift has given us a 

 kind of defcription of him without a figure. He fays the 

 Arabs call him Garbuka, but this is not fo, he goes by no 

 other name in all the eafl, but that of Jerboa, only the let- 

 ter J, fometimes by being pronounced Y, for Jerboa he is 

 called Yerboa, and this is the only variation in name. 



Thx 



*, Ifaiah, char. xvi. ver. 17. 



