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th«ywere4^. foot long, whereas thote o( the Lyetj, formerly 
diCfeiled by thefame Obfeivers, had but 25. The ki^^eys had 
a very peculiar ftrudure, 1//^. a membrane containing 55. fmall 
kidneys, aftuallyfeparate from one another 5 each cover'd with 
its proper membranes here and there connected by very fine 
fibres 5 everyone having a large ^^/^ outwards , andftreight- 
ning it felf inwards 5 that ^afe being in fome a Hexagon , in the 
moft a Pentagon 5 and in others Square 5 andfthe whole rep: e- 
fenting as 'twere zxiipQ Fhe- apple: therefore probably fobigg, 
and divided into fo many fmalier kidneys, that it might con- 
taine and evacuate the greater plenty of ferofities , to be found 
in a Bear , becaufe he hath but little of inftnfible tranfpi- 
ration, by reafonof the thicknefsof the habic of his body, 
not favourable for it. The Braids they obferv'd to be 4. times 
bigger, than that of the Lyon they opened. The Lyes ex- 
ceeding little , the ChryfiaUinrQiy odlyfcituated^^nd drawn 
pn one fide of the Jxis of the Eye. 
But that which is particularly taken notice of in the defcrip- 
tionofthis Animall , is, i. Theftrengthof its Temper and con- 
ftitution^by which it is able, though it h^ve but a lirtlefto- 
mach 5 and ftreight gutts (among which there is no C^a^m ) to 
digeft with eafeall forts of edibks , raw flefli, Fifli^ Lobftersjn- 
feftSjHerbs , Fiuits , Hony ^ fupplying by the force o. his tem- 
per the defeat of a commodious ftru6^ure. 2. The fmall capacity 
of its Liver and Spleen to receive excrementitious matter 5 which 
argues , that the adion oi the naturall Heat is fo well regulated, 
that 'tis not fubjed to dcfeil or excefs. 3. The Angular faculty 
of encreafing to a great bulk , by which , though it be born ex- 
ceeding fmall, it grows a very big an'mal, its natural moifture 
being fo perfeft , as to render the parts capable to extend thenv 
felves, and to increafe their magnitude without ItfTening their 
ftrength. 
The Gazelk or wild African Shee-goat (the fame with the 
Dorcas or Strep ficeres ) was of the bignefs and fhape of an Hind, its 
hair fallow, except that of the belly^ which was white-, its 
Eyes big and black > the Horns black alfo,ftreak*t crofs--ways, 
15. inches long, very (liarpe , pretty ftreight, but a little 
turned outwards about the middles in part hollow ^ and by a 
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