CAPIBARA. 
good meat. However, the ficsl) of the Cabiai: 
when it lives on fish, may have this bad taste;; 
and, when fed with bread or grain, it may 
be very good. 
As w^e had," concludes BufFon, thl^ 
animal alive in Paris, and kept it a long -time, 
I am persuaded that it might be propagated in 
our climate. I mentioned, above, that it was 
killed by the cold. I have, however, since 
been informied, that it endured the winter's 
cold very well : but, as it was shut up in a 
garret, it threw itself down, and fell into a 
vessel full of water, where it was drowned; 
which would not have happened, if it hac 
not been hurt, in the fall, on the edge of the 
vessel." 
To this account, w^e shall add the sliort his< 
tory and description given by Pennant; parti 
culariy, as it affords seme additional inforraa 
tion, without which the description of the ani 
nial could not be considered as con:pleat. 
TheCauibara," says Pennant, ''hasaver 
large and thick head and nose; small rounde 
ears 
