obferved, that the Deal-Floor was neither finged nor 
difcolour’d ; and the Manner of the Fire burning in her 
Body is defcribed as the working of fome inward Caufe, 
and not from the burning of her Cloaths, which were 
only a Cotton Gown and upper Petticoat. 
XVII. An Account of a Quadruped brought 
from Bengal, and now to be feen in Lon- 
don : Prefented by Tames Parfons, M. D. 
& F.R.S. 
Read June 2 7 -T) E I N G always defirous of lay- 
I/+S [j ing before this Learned Society 
whatfoever appears to me new and curious, I em- 
braced the prefent Opportunity of viewing and 
defcribing this Creature, which I cannot find men- 
tioned by any Natural Hiftorian, nor any Figure ex- 
hibited, in the leaft, like it. Nor is it indeed to 
be wonder’d at, fince the Beaft was brought to Ben - 
gal , from a very remote Part of the Mogul’s Domi- 
nions j infomuch that no Perfon at Bengal had the 
leaft Knowledge of him. 
The only Hint that feems to point at this Crea- 
ture, is that mentioned by John Albert de Mandeb- 
floe , in his Voyages thro’ the Indies , which are pub- 
lifhed in H a r r i s’s Complete Collection of Voyages 
andTravels , N°. 52. p. 77 5. where he fays, that, 
among the Horfes in the Stables of the Viceroy of 
Goa , he faw “ a Beaft called a Biggel , a Creature 
<£ much about the Colour and Bignefs of a Rain- 
“ deer: Its Head like that of a Horfe; its Main like 
that 
