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and black, furrounded by a deep blue iris. He had ftrong, 

 thick muftachoes ; the tip of his nofe very fharp, black, and 

 polimed. His upper jaw reached beyond the lower, and had 

 four grinders on each fide of the mouth. It has fix fore- 

 teeth in each jaw. Thofe in the under jaw are fmaller than 

 the upper. The canine, or cutting teeth, are long, large, and 

 exceedingly pointed. His legs are fmall, and his feet very 

 broad ; he has four toes armed with crooked, black, fharp 

 claws ; thofe on his fore- feet more crooked and fharp than 

 behind. All his body is nearly of a dirty white, bordering 

 on cream colour; the hair of his belly rather whiter, fofter, 

 and longer than the refc, and on it a number of paps, but 

 he was fo impatient it was impoflible to count them. He 

 very feldom extended or fliffened his tail, the hair of which 

 v^as harder. He had a very fly and wily appearance. But 

 as he is a folitary animal, and not gregarious, as he has no 

 particular mark of feeblenefs about him, no fhift or parti- 

 cular cunning which "might occafion Solomon to qualify 

 •him as wife ; as he builds his neft upon trees, and not on 

 the rock, he cannot be the faphan of the fcripture, as fome, 

 <both Jews and Arabians, not fufficiently attentive to the 

 qualities attributed to that animal, have neverthelefs erro- 

 neoufly imagined. 



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