AFRICAN COAST-RAT. 
Il inhabits the sand hills adjacent to the sea, 
in the Cape of Good Hope, and is said never to 
be found in the interior parts of the country. 
It is known, at the Cape, by the name of 
the Zand Moll, or Sand Mo^e; an appellation 
which might alone have been sufEcient, had 
naturalists and travellers so pleased. 
It forms burrows in the sands, like those of 
Rabbits, which if digs with surprising celerity. 
By flinging up the earth, or sand, in thus form- 
ing it's burrows, the ground is often rendered 
so hollow, in the places it most frequents, as 
to prove highly inconvenient to travellers; 
breaking, as it is asserted, at intervals of a, 
few minutes only, under the horses feet, and 
letting them in up to the shoulders. 
The food of this animal is supposed chiefly 
to consist of bulbous rooted plants ; particular- 
ly, the Ixi^, the Antholyzas, the Gladioli, and 
the Irides. 
From the abundance of these animals in the 
vicinity of the Cape, they are supposed to be 
very 
