BRISTLY CAVV. 
Daman Israel, of the Arabs ; which last name 
is also adopted by BufFon, and applied to Dn 
Shaw's Jird, or Saphan of the Sacred Writ- 
ings ; said to be mistranslated, as the Conev, 
or Rabbit. 
On this subject, however, ingenious men 
have greatly differed ; and, perhaps, it is still 
doubtful, to what particular animal the Scrip- 
tures allude : so that, in fact, were a new 
translation to be made, we are far from cer- 
tain that any proposed alteration w'oiild be an 
amendment. All the essential meaning is suf- 
ficiently evident to the most ricrid observer of 
the Levitical Law. The Coney, or Rabbit, 
as well as the Hare, which it immediately pre- 
cedes in the iist of prohibited animal food, arc 
equally described ; and both descriptions, per- 
linps as far as they proceed, maybe alike appli- 
cable to other animals, without any just im- 
peaclnnent of tiie present translation. 
The Bristly Caw, according to Pennant, 
r/as first taken notice of by Prosper Alpinus, 
\\]\o calls it Agnus Frliorum Israel ; the Da- 
man Israel of the Arabs. He says, it is larger 
than 
