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the Count de Buffon at Paris. He declares I am miftaken 

 by faying that it lives on trees * ; for in confequence, I fup- 

 pofe, of its being a fox, he fays it burrows in the ground, 

 which, I doubt very much, he never faw an African fox 

 do. His reafon for this is, that there is a fmall animal 

 which lives in the fands at Camdebo, near the Cape of Good 

 Hope, which is rofe-coloured, and he believes it to be the 

 animal in queftion, for he once hunted it till it efcaped by 

 burrowing under ground, but he did not remark or diftin- 

 guifli his ears f. 



I do really believe there may be many fmall animals 

 found at Camdebo, as well as in all the other fands of Africa ; 

 but having feen the reft of this creature during the whole 

 time of a chace, without remarking his ears, which are his 

 great chara&eriftic, is a proof that Dr Sparman is either 

 miftaken in the beaft itfelf, or elfe that he is an unfor- 

 tunate and inaccurate obferver. There is but one other 

 animal that has ears more confpicuous or difproportioned 

 than this we are now fpeaking of. I need not name him to a 

 man of the profeffor's learning. The Doctor goes on in a 

 further defcription of this animal that he had never feen. 

 He fays his name is Zerda, which I fuppofe is the fweeteft 

 translation of the Arabic word Jerd, or Jerda. But here Dr 

 Sparman has been again unlucky in his choice, for, befides 

 many other differences, the Jerd, which is an animal well 

 known both in Africa and Arabia, has no tail, but this per- 

 haps is but another inftance of the Doctor's ill fortune ; in 



the 



* Sparman's voyage to the Cape, vol. ii. p. i&5. f P. 185, 



