i 9 z HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS, 



The Panther is about the fize of a large MaftifF Dog ; 

 but its legs are not quite fo long. Its voice is ftrong and 

 hoarfe ; and it growls continually. 



The ancients were well acquainted with thefe animals. 

 The Romans drew prodigious numbers from the deferts 

 of Africa, for their public mews 5 fufficient, one might 

 fuppofe, to have entirely exhaufted them. Scaurus ex- 

 hibited an hundred and fifty of them at one time ; Pom- 

 pey four hundred and ten ; and Auguftus four hundred 

 and twenty. They probably thinned the coafts of Mau- 

 ritania of thefe animals but they ft ill fwarm in the 

 fouthern parts of Guinea. 



In China, there is a moll beautiful animal of this kind, 

 called the Louchu ; the Ikin of which fells for fix pounds 

 ilerling. 



An animal of this fpecies is likewife found in Afiatic 

 Tartary, called there the Babr. It is feven feet long, ex- 

 tremely rapacious, and very deftruclive of horfes and ca- 

 mels. Its Ikin is fine, and valued in Ruflia at one 

 pound fterling. 



