LYNX. 
alluded to by BufFon, respeccing the precious 
stones said to be produced by the urine of the 
Lynx ; as BufFon also denies that the Lynx 
could be harncsxsed to tlie chariot of Bacchus, 
in his conquest of India. Had these great 
naturalists poetically considered the subjedl, 
they would, with very little expence of ima- 
gination, have conceived it by no means unna- 
tural, for the vivid fancy of a poet to create 
gems from the buried urine of an anim.al 
waiose lustrous eyes were supposed capable of 
p.lercing through stone walls : and, if a Pcet 
wished to draw the car of his hero with Lynxes,, 
the gravest historian will not pretend to assert 
that they must necessarily be natives of the 
country where he introduces them ; since, their 
being rare, or even foreign animals, would but 
enhance the dignity of him who was to be 
thus triumphally conveyed. 
This animal is the Felis Lynx of the Lin= 
ns^an system: characterised as being short- 
tailed ; and of a rufous grey general colour, 
slightly spotted with black ; beneath, white ; 
tip of the tail, black ; and ears barbed, or ter- 
minated by tufts of long black hair. 
