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CHAP. IX. 
Of the Tyger. 
A RlJietle in his ninth Book of his Hiftory of 
Animals, Chap. 29. faith, that in Afia are 
found morecrutl heaSis, tn Europe ftronoer, and 
valiant er ‘ bttt that in Africa there are beafts of 
ftranger foafes j and therefore this Creatute being 
found only in Afia, is more fierce and cruel ; as for 
the Etytmlogj of the word, Tyger is an Armenian 
word, and (ignifieth in that tongue, an Arrow • 
hence it was that in ancient times there was a Ri- 
ver called by the fame name, becaufe it ran fo fwife- 
1. This Creature is found moft commonly in 
HircanUj being generated only there * hence 
Virgil, in the fecond Book of his t/£niods, callcth 
them HircanianTygers.. 
I. It is like a great Horfe for the bignefsof 
it. . 
5. It is a very fwift beaft, and almoft incredi- 
ble ; whence in former times it was called an Ar- 
row. 
4. It is as ftrong as fwift, therefore it Is faid to 
be Itronger than an Elephant. 
5. His skin is all over fpotted, and therefore 
this hcaft is what the Peacoekji among Birds, moft 
c^aely and beautiful. 
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