i 9 6 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



able to overtake them in a continued chace: It hunts 

 folely by the eye, and makes only a few fprings at its 

 prey. It is fo nimble, as to clear a ditch or a wall of 

 many feet. It often climbs trees to watch animals that 

 are pafling, and fuddenly darts upon them. 



It is fuppofed to be the Lejfer Panther of Oppian, and 

 the Panther a of Pliny. 



The JAGUAR 



is the mod formidable animal of the new continent, ra- 

 ther larger than the Panther, with hair of a bright-tawny 

 colour. The top of the back is marked with long ftripes 

 of black ; the fides beautifully variegated with irregular 

 oblong fpots, open in the middle ; the tail not fo long as 

 that of the Ounce, and irregularly marked with large 

 black fpots. 



It is found in the hotteft parts of South-America ; is 

 very fierce ; and, when prefled with hunger, will fome- 

 times venture to feize a man. 



The Indians are much afraid of it, and think it prefers 

 them to the white inhabitants, who, perhaps, are better 



