COMMON CAT. 
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Cat) ; slate-coloured with very long fur, especially 
on the neck and tail (the Persian Cat) ; white, 
with hair of a similar length (called the Angora 
Cat); and, lastly, with penciled or tufted ears, 
like a Lynx, which sometimes, though rarely, takes 
place. Of all the above varieties the Persian and 
the Angora are the most remarkable : the latter 
variety has sometimes one eye blue, the other yel- 
low; a particularity which takes place in some 
specimens of the common white Cat; it is also ob- 
servable that the white variety of the Cat is some- 
times perfectly deaf. 
To enlarge on the character and manners of 
this useful and agreeable domestic would be en- 
tirely superfluous. It may be sufficient to ob- 
serve, that, when Avell educated, the Cat possesses 
qualities which well entitle her to the regard and 
protection of mankind; and if she does not ex- 
hibit the vivid and animated attachment of the 
Dog, she is still of an affectionate and gentle dis- 
position, and grateful to her benefactors. 
She has also the merit of perpetual cleanliness, 
and does not soil even the nicest furniture ; while 
her numerous and infinitely varying gesticulations 
have an elegance and levity almost unequalled by 
any other animal. 
A singular instance of attachment in the Cat, 
is recorded in Mr. Pennant's Account of London. 
Henry Wriothsly, Earl of Southampton, the friend 
and companion of the Earl of Essex in his fatal 
insurrection, having been confined some time in 
