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bread, cakfs, or the like. It feemed very fafceptlble of cold, 

 notwithdandin J iYiQ great thicknefs of i(s fk'm, and I think I may 

 venture with great fafety to affirm that the Tapir o^ Malacca hza 

 nothing amphibious in its nature, a eharafler which appears to 

 attach to thofe of America r indeed the one I reared (hewed ra« 

 ther i'n averfion to water, and In the wild (late they are foQud 

 to frequent high grounds. 



