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air, becomes hard and black. — It is the Guinea Antelope of 

 Mr Pennant, and the Grimme of M. BufFon. 



The KLIP-SPRINGER 



is of a light-red colour, inclining to yellow, intermixed 

 with black ftreaks; the tips and edges of its ears are 

 black : It runs with great fwiftnefs, and makes large 

 bounds, even on the fteepeft precipices, and in the moft 

 rocky places, where it cannot eafily be caught with 

 hounds. 



The GNU. 



This fingular animal, with refpecl: to its form, ap- 

 pears in fome refpects fimilar to both the Horfe and the 

 Ox. It is about the fize of a common galloway; its 

 length being fomewhat above five feet, and its height ra- 

 ther more than four. 



This animal is of a dark-brown colour ; the tail and 

 mane of a light-grey \ the fhag on the chin and breaft, 



