CAPE CAT. 
ger. This politeness of Mr. Pennant is mere 
trifling. He knew perfectly well, that Dr. 
Forster's account was incongruous; and he 
should have openly said so, with as much civi- 
lity as he pleased. The Doctor deserved not 
to be affronted ; but he ought to have been told 
of his error „ 
Tt is by no means for the sake of finding 
fault with any of our intelligent naturalists, 
to whom every body is indebted, and ourselves 
are largely so, that we add our objection to 
the name of the Cape Cat ; which, we have, 
however, adopted. Local appellations should 
never be given to animals which are found in 
numbers equally great at different and very re- 
mote parts of the world : as, in the present in- 
stance, the Felis Capensis, or Cape Cat, from 
the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, 
to as high north as Congo ! 
