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pltistt's natural HISTOBY. [BookVIIL 
end to by tlieir winter's rest, when they conceal themselves 
and sleep ; they are young again by the summer. The field- 
, mouse also enjoys a similar repose. 
CHAP. 83. (58.) PLACES 11^ WHICH CEKTAIN ANIMALS AEE Wr 
TO BE EOTJND. 
It is a remarkable feet, that nature has not onl}^ assigned 
different countries to different animals, but that even in the 
same country, it has denied certain species to peculiar localities. 
In Italy the dormouse is found in one part only, the Hessian 
forest. In Lycia the gazelle never passes beyond the moun- 
tains which border upon Syria nor does the wild ass in that 
vicinity pass over those which divide Cappadocia from Cilicia. 
On the banks of the Hellespont, the stags never pass into a 
strange territory, and about Arginussa^^ they never go beyond 
Mount Elaphus ; those upon that mountain, too, have cloven 
ears. In the island of Poroselene,^^ the weasels will not so 
much as cross a certain road. In Boeotia, the moles, which were 
introduced at Lebadea, fly from the very soil of that country, 
while in the neighbourhood, at Orchomenus, the very same 
animals tear up all the fields. We have seen coverlets for 
beds made of the skins of these creatures, so that our sense of 
religion does not prevent us from employing these ominous 
animals for the purposes of luxury. When hares have been 
brought to Ithaca, they die as soon as ever they touch the 
shore, and the same is the case with rabbits, on the shores of 
the island of Ebusus;^"^ while they abound in the vicinity, 
"NiteUs." See B. xvi. c. 69. Probably the anijnal now known as 
the Myoxus nitela of Linnaeus. 
52 Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. viii. c. 33.— B. 
According to Hardouin, this forest is termed, in modern times, Bosco 
di Baccano ; it is nine miles S.W. of Eome. 
5* Cuvier informs us, that " Le dorcas des Grecs nVst le daim, comme 
le dit Hardouin, mais le chevreuil ; car Aristote (De Partib. Anim. 1. iii. 
c. 2) dit que c'est le plus petit des animaux a cornes que nous connaissions 
(sans doute en Gre.ce) ; et le dorcas Libyca, tres-bien decrit par Jj]lien 
(1. xiv. c. 4), est certainement la gazelle commune, ' antelope dorcas,' " 
Ajasson, vol. vi. pp. 467, 468 ; Lemaire, vol. iii. p. 565. Respecting the 
lo<3alities here mentioned, it has been proposed to substitute Cilicia for Syria, 
Syria and Lycia being at a considerable distance from each other. — B. 
55 See B. V. c. 39. gge B. v. c. 38. 
See B. iii. c. 11, and the Note to the passage. See also c. 81 of this 
Book. 
