WHITE-FOOTED ANTELOPE. 
nature, has a single species of the Antelope 
ever been discovered. Their native countries 
seem, therefore, to be Asia and Africa. 
The eyes of the Antelope, which are in ge- 
neral black, arc so extremely brilliant, and at 
the same time of so mild or meek an aspe6t, 
that the oriental poets compare the eyes of 
their mistresses to those of this beautiful qua- 
druped. " Aine el Czazel,'' or " You have 
the eyes of an Antelope," is considered, in the 
East, as the highest compliment that can be 
paid to a fine woman. 
It is usually more delicately formed, and 
more finely limbed, than the roe-buck ; and, 
though it's hair is equally short, it is finer 
and more glossy. It's hind-legs, like those of 
tlie hare, are longer than it's fore-legs ; which 
not only qualify it for extraordinary sv/iftness, 
but afford it greater security than it would 
otherwise have, in ascending and descending 
precipices, a practice to which it seems pecu- 
liarly attached. It's fleetness, in fad, is equal, 
if not superior, to that of the roe-buck; 
though this animal bounds forward, while the 
Antelope 
