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misfortune I cannot be a judge, never having feen an- 

 other. 



RACHAMA H. 



r T , HIS bird is met with in fome places in the fouth of 

 Syria and in Barbary, but is no where fo frequent as in 

 Egypt and about Cairo. It is called, by the Europeans, Poule 

 de Faraone, the hen or bird of Pharaoh. It is a vulture of 

 the leiTer kind, not being much larger than our rook or 

 crow, though, by the length of its wings, and -the erect man- 

 ner in which it carries its head, it appears considerably 

 larger. In Egypt and all over Barbary it is called Rachamah, 

 and yet it has been very much doubted what bird, this was, 

 as well as what was the origin of -that name. Some of the 

 Arabs will have it derived from Archam, which fignifies 

 variegated, or of different colours. It has been arifwered, 

 that this is not the derivation, as arch am in Arabic Ugni- 

 fies variegated, or of more colours than two or three blended 

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