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know even a little of a large and elegant animal* 
which has not hitherto been defcribed, or painted. 
At firft fight, the male Nyl-ghau flruck my ima- 
gination with being of a middle nature, between 
black cattle and deer; fuch an animal as we might 
fuppofe a mule would be, that was the produce of 
thofe two fpecies of hearts. In fize, it is as much 
fmaller than the one, as it is larger than the other : 
and in its form there is a very apparent mixture 
of refemblance to both. Its body, horns, and tail, 
are not unlike thofe of a bull ; and the head, neck, 
and legs, are very like thofe of deer. 
Colour. The colour, in general, is arti, or grey, 
from a mixture of black hairs and white : moft of 
the hairs are half white, and half black ; the white 
part is towards the root. The colour of its legs is 
darker than that of its body ; the fame thing may 
be faid of its head, with this peculiarity, that there 
the darker colour is not general and uniform, but 
fome parts are almort quite black. In fome parts to 
be mentioned hereafter, the hair is of a beautiful 
white colour. 
Trunk. The height of the back, where there is 
a flight eminence over the flaoulder-blade, is four 
feet and one inch ; at the highert part, immediately 
behind the loins, it is only four feet. The general 
length of the trunk, as feen in a fide view, from the 
root of the neck to the pendulous tail, is about 
four feet ; which is nearly the height of the animal j 
fo that, in a fide view, when it ftands with its legs 
parallel, its back and limbs make nearly three fides 
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