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Vermine Kind ; but that may be better determinated, * 
had one an Opportunity of obferving the Male ; for our 
Subject was a Female^ which I am no^ to give a De- 
fcription of. 
And for the better doing this, I caufed a Figure ft r. 
of it to be made, exad from the Life: for thcfe Figures^"^^'^' 
that hitherto have been given of it, are very faulty • as 
wiU appear by compariog this with that of the Caragueya 
of Margrave (a), which is copied by Pifo (I) and John* 
fon (t). The Figure of Job. Eufeh. Nieremhergm (d) 
indeed,, fee ns to be taken from the Life, and more 
agrceablci ; but not in all Particulars exadl: That in 
Gefger (f) is altogether Monflrous; but witha!, he tells 
us whence he had it; ImagtnemacUedi ^ qualis in Tabu* 
lis Ge^graph'icis depingi folet,; and miftruits it himfelf, 
where he faith, & Icon /iquidei credendtm. However, 
Johnfton. j who never fails to copy an Error, and never 
roeods one) adds this Figure too, vid. ejujd. Tab, 58. 
though he ovi^nsthat he had leen that o\ Nierembergius, 
The Figure of Vlyjf. Aldrovandus (jf) is much the lame 
with that of Gefners. 
Should one h^re indulge the Im.^gination fo far, as in 
the Dufcription of this Animal, to borrow its feveral 
T0rts from thoft of different Species ; one Ihould rather 
ftem to form a Chimerical Monfler^ than to defcribe a 
real JnmaL Yet we find the beft Zoograpbers thus to 
pleafe rhemfelves in their Accounts of it. 
Aniryialeli tlaquatzin Cants par.vi forma & magnitudi- 
ne^ fdkh'Hermandez (c)^ Animal efl Catidi vel Medio^ 
cris felis magnitudine^ as Margrave (ji). Pars anterior 
Vulpem^ pojierior vero Simam reprefentahat^ nifi qt4bd 
Pedes effingit Hum anos^ Aures autem halet Noilu£y imh 
(t) Hift, Animal Quadruped, tab* 6^. 
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