COUGAR, 
Goldsmith, that v/as not, at least, ingenious ; 
few modern naturalists, it is presumed, will 
subscribe, in toto, to what he has advanced on 
the subje6t of minute discriminations, which 
not unfrequently lead to important distindions. 
AVith respedl to the Cougar, it is, most un- 
questionably, a quite different animal from 
the tiger; though it's habits, as well as it's 
conformation, are in many respe6ls similar* 
It inhabits America, from Canada to Brasil, 
and is the scourge of the colonies in all the 
hotter parts of the new world. Fierce and 
ravenous in the highest degree, rt swims over 
tlie broad rivers, and attacks cattle even in in- 
closures; and, when pressed with hunger, 
spares not even mankind. In North Ame- 
rica, it's ferocity seems to be greatly subdued 
by the rigours of the climate: the smallest 
cur, in company with it's master, makes the 
Cougar seek for security, by running up trees ; 
but then it is equally destru6llve to domestic 
animals, and constitutes the greatest nuisance 
which the planter has to encounter. 
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