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torium, or Cape Mahomet, which divides the Elanitic from 

 the Heroopolitic Gulf, or Gulf of Suez. In all places they 

 feem to be the fame, if there is any difference it is in fa- 

 vour of the fize and fatnefs, which thofe in the Mountain 

 of the Sun feem to enjoy above the others. What is his 

 food I cannot determine with any degree of certainty. 

 When in my pofleffion, he ate bread and milk, and feemed 

 rather to be a moderate than voracious feeder. I fuppofe 

 he lives upon grain, fruit* and roots. He feemed too timid 

 and backward in his own nature to feed upon living food, 

 or catch it by hunting. 



The total length of this animal as he fits, from the point 

 of his nofe to his anus, is 17 inches and a quarter. The 

 length of his fnout, from the extremity of the nofe to the 

 occiput, is 3 inches and fths. His upper jaw is longer 

 than his under ; his nofe ftretches half an inch beyond his 

 chin. The aperture of the mouth, when he keeps k clofe 

 in profile, is a little more than an inch. The circumference 

 of his fnout around both his jaws is 3 inches and Iths ; 

 and round his head, juft above his ears, 8 inches and -fths ; 

 the circumference of his neck is 8 inches and a half, and 

 its length one inch and a half. He feems more willing to 

 turn his body altogether, than his neck alone. The circum- 

 ference of his body, meafured behind his forelegs, is 9 

 inches and three quarters, and that of his body where great- 

 eft, eleven inches and fths. The length of hii- foreleg and 

 toe is 3 inches and a half. The length of his hind thigh 

 is 3 inches and -g-th, and the length of his hind leg to the 

 toe taken together, is 2 feet 1 inches. The length of the 

 forefoot is 1 inch and |ths ; the length of the middle toe 

 6 lines, and its breadth 6 lines alfo. The diitance between 



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