AFRICAN COAST RAT. 
form a combination, including the different 
ideas of the respectable naturalists just men- 
tioned, by denominating it the African Coast 
Mole-Rat. 
But, after all, we are far from certain, that 
it would not be best, in this, as in most other 
cases, to adhere strictly to the all together in^ 
comparable Linnseus: who has sufficiently 
characterised it, by his " Mus Myotalpa Mari- 
tima;" which might be literally rendered, 
the Maritime Mole-Rat," 
The first deviation seems fairly ascribable ta 
the ingenious Dr. Gnielin ; whom Dr. Shaw 
appears to have followed : and by which we? 
have, ourselves, been misled; for want of an 
earlier recurrence to Mr. Kerr's admirable, 
but neglected, translation of a part of the Sys- 
tema Nature. That this most able natural- 
ist was not encouraged to proceed, by any. 
adequate public encouragement of his indefati- 
gable labours, is a sort of national reproach T 
** The animals of this subdivision of the 
genus," says Mr. Kerr, in a note to his Myo- 
talpsB, 
