PACA. 
which cannot be drawn off, because it adheres 
to the flesh. 
Though Buffon's tame Paca had not ac- 
quired her full growth, she was, when she 
extended herself, nearly two feet long, from 
the point of the muzzle to the extremity of the 
body ; while that which he had first described 
was less than eight inches. The difference, 
he observes, as there was no other between 
the two animals, must be ascribed, entirely to 
that of their ages. 
" The height before," says Buffon, " hi 
the individual we are now describing, is seven 
inches; and, behind, about nine inches and a 
half : so that, in walking, the hind part of the 
body appeared always higher than the head. 
The posterior part of the body is also the 
thickest; being nineteen inches and a half in 
circumference, while that of the anterior part 
is only fourteen inches. The body is covered 
with short, coarse, thinly scattered hair, of a 
dusky colour, and deeper on the back. But 
the belly, the breast, the throat, and the inte- 
rior parts of the legs, are of a dirty white. 
This- 
