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lour of their hair, and fhape, they pret- 

 ty much refemble the Hare \ but in the 

 tafte of their flefh, and in burrowing in 

 the earth, they refemble the Rabbit. 

 Their legs are about four inches in 

 length i their ears are fomewhat fmall, 

 and roundifh ; the belly is \yhite , and 

 the head pretty nearly refembles that 

 of a Hare : they have cloven lips, but 

 no tails. They are very prolific, and 

 their flefh compofes near one half of the 

 animal food of the Natives, as they are 

 the moft numerous, and eafily taken, 

 of any other animal, wbofe flefh is 

 equally palatable, Thefe are proba- 

 bly the fame fpecies of animals de (bri- 

 bed by Wafer on the Ifthmus of Da- 

 rien. 



The American Porcupines are fome- 

 times feen in Guiana, but are not very 

 frequent. Thefe animals have been al- 

 ready repeatedly defcribed by the wri- 



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