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appear as one. The head is a truly hideous 
bbjed. It is fcarcely lefs fo than that of 
the hippopotamus, to which at firft view it 
appears to have a ftriking refemblance. Syf- 
tematifts, acciiftomed to view nature only ac- - 
Cording to rules eftablifhed by themfelves, 
, tvill be far from acknow ledging this animal to 
be a boar : for, not to mention its large fnout, 
it Wants iricifive teeth in both jaws, Notwith- 
ftanding its wide muzzle, it ploughs up the 
earth to fcek for roots, on which it feeds. It 
is very adiive, though large and bulky ; run- 
ning with fuch fpeed, that the Hottentots give 
it the name of the runner. Some future day 
t fhall return to this intereding quadruped : 
and in the mean time I fhall here give a plate 
of a young one which I have in my colledion*. 
Having feen neither the mouth nor the 
fource of Fifti- River, I cannot fpeak v^^ith 
certainty of its fituation, and muft rely on fea^ 
* BtifFoii has given a figure of this Cape boar from 
profefTor Allamand, in hiS Supplement to his Hiftory of 
Quadrupeds, vol. v, plate 1 1, of the duodecimo edition : 
bdt Hothing like the head of this animal is difcoverable 
in the figure, as all its characleriftics have been omitted by 
the draughtfman. 
R 2 men 
