CAPE CAT. 
more representatives of their different species 
than that of the Cat. The genus of Ante- 
lopes may, perhaps, be excepted: since, to my 
knowledge, about twenty different Gazelles 
and Antelopes are to be met with in Africa ; 
but no more than about eight or nine of the 
Cat-tribe have hitherto been discovered on that 
continent. However, I know about twenty- 
one different species of this great class; and, I 
suppose, they by no means exhaust this nu- 
merous tribe. 
" The greater and more numerous the dif- 
ferent genera of animals are, the more difficult 
it must be, to the natural historian, properly to 
arrange the whole of such an extensive divi- 
slon of animals ; especially, if they are not 
equally well known. To form new genera, 
in order to dispose and arrange them under, is a 
remedy which increases the evil instead of 
curing it. The best method, therefore, which 
can be devised, is to make great divisions in j 
each genus, comprehending those species i\ 
which, on account of some common relation, j 
or character, have a greater affinity to one j 
another. The genus of Cat, to which the | 
animal I 
