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Its head Is about eighteen inches long ; the upper part com- 
pletely guarded by the rugged roots of the horns that fpread 
acrofs the forehead, having only a narrow channel between 
them that wears out with age, as in thofe of the buffalo ; the 
horns projed: forwards twelve inches, then turn in a fliort 
curve backwards ten inches ; from the root to the point is only 
nine inches ; down the middle of the face grows a ridge of 
black hair four inches in length ; and from the under lip to the 
throat another ridge fomewhat longer : the orbit of the eye is 
round, and furrounded by long white hairs that, like fo many 
radii, diverge and form a kind of ftar : this radiated eye gives 
to the animal a fierce and very uncommon look. The fame 
fort of white vitriffse are thinly difperfed over the lips : the 
neck is little more than a foot long : on the upper part is a 
mane extending beyond the fhoulders, ered:, and five inches 
in length ; the hair like briftles, black in the middle and white 
on each fide j this mane appears as if it had been cut and 
trimmed : a ridge of black hair fix inches long extends from 
the fore part of the cheft under the fore legs to the beginning 
of the abdomen : the body is about three feet two inches long ; 
the joints of the hip-bones project high, and form on the but- 
tocks a pair of hemifpheres : the tail is two feet long, flat near 
the root, where the hair grows only out of the fides j this is 
white, briftly, and bufhy : the whole length, from the point of 
the nofe to the end of the tail, feven feet ten inches, and the 
height three feet fix inches : the color is that of a moufe, with 
a few ferruginous ftraggling hairs on the fides : like the mare it 
has only two teats ; and all its habits and its motions are equine : 
though a fraall animal, it appears of very confiderable fize 
when 
