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monly inhabit more fertile cantons, and there 
were fuch in the neighbourhood, as will preJ 
fently be feen. In fliort, to give my readers 
an idea how numerous this herd was, I fhall 
only fay that, notwithftanding the rapidity 
of its courfe, it employed three whole hours to 
pafs me. 
In the relation of my firft travels, I have 
mentioned this antelope under the name of the 
gazelle de parade — an appellation exceedingly 
well fuited to it, as it feems to produce the 
change I have fpoken of, merely for the pur- 
pofe of ornamenting its rump with a fplendid 
coloun On account of this denomination, I 
have been reproached by a Journalift with not 
having ftudied the true principles of the zoolo- 
gical nomenclature ; but the critic was doubt- 
lefs ignorant, that the above name is one of 
thofe given to this antelope at the Cape of 
Good- Hope, w^here the planters diftinguifh it 
by that of pronk-bock (the goat which adorns 
itfelf ): it is known alfo by thofe of the leaping 
goat, and the goat of pafTage. All thefe dif- 
ferent denominations are derived from the ha- 
bits of the animal ; and, in my opinion, they 
are all preferable to thofe ftrange and barba- 
rous 
