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the point of the nofe and the firft corner of the eve is one 

 inch and |ths ; and the length of his eye, from one angle 

 to the other, 4 lines. The difference from the fore angle of 

 his eye to the root of his ear is one inch 3 lines, and the 

 opening of his eye 1 lines and a half. His upper lip is 

 covered with a pencil of ftrong hairs for muftachoes, the 

 length of which are 3 inches and | ths, and thofe of his eye- 

 brows 2 inches and jths., 



He has no tail, and gives at firft fight the idea of a rar f 

 rather than of any other creature. His colour is a grey 

 mixt with a reddifh brown, perfectly like the wild or war- 

 ren rabbit. His belly is white, from the point of the lower 

 jaw, to where his tail would begin, If that he had one. All 

 over his body he has fcattered hairs, ftrong and polimed 

 like his muftachoes, thefe are for the moft part two inches 

 and a quarter in length. His ears are round, not point- 

 ed. He makes no noife that ever I heard, but certainly 

 chews the cud. To difcover this, was the principal reafon 

 of my keeping him alive ; thofe with whom he is acquaint- 

 ed he follows with great afliduity. The arrival of any li- 

 ving creature, even of a bird, makes him feek for a hiding- 

 place, and I fhut him up in a cage with a final! chicken, 

 after omitting feeding him a whole day ; the next morning 

 the chicken was unhurt, tho* the Aflikoko came to me with 

 great ligns of having fuftered with hunger. I likewife made 

 a fecond experiment, by inelofing two fmalier birds with 

 him, for the fpace of feveral weeks ; neither were thefe 

 hurt, though both of them fed, without impediment, of the 

 meat that was thrown into his cage, and the fmalleft of 

 thefe a kind of tit-moufe, feemed to be advancing in a fort 

 ©f familiarity with him, though I never faw it venture to 



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