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ing, now before the Royal Society, for its infpedion. 
[See Tab. XIV.] I have endeavoured to make it as 
accurate as poflible in all its proportion ; yet am afraid 
J have made the ears a fmall matter too long. There 
is a figure of it in the London Magazine for December 
laft, which has no refemblance at all to it, except in 
the ears, which the engraver, who drew it, has made 
to turn forwards, contrary to nature. However, the 
following defcription will, I believe, be the proper 
account of it. 
It is fomething taller than the largeft fized cat, 
being about fifteen inches high at the fhoulders ; 
flender and light, though ftrong. The head is fmall 
in proportion to the reft, and the neck flender. It 
has nothing fierce in its afpedl, but is mild, and very 
tame. It is exactly of a fawn-colour, having its ears 
black on their outfides, and lined with white hairs, 
and fome white round the root of each ear ; it is alfo 
white under the throat and belly, and a little fo on 
the backs of its limbs. Its eyes are fmall, and its 
head like that of a cat, but fomewhat flenderer; its 
legs are genteel and ftrait, with the paws of a cat, 
having the power of dilating and contracting its toes, 
which are armed with ftrong crooked nails, in the 
fame manner as a cat or tyger does ; and its actions 
are like thofe of a cat. I fat and watched its mo- 
tions, and faw it lick its foot, and rub it over its 
face feveral times, exadly like a cat ; and was told 
by the man who fliewed it me, that, if it is offended, 
it hifles. I examined its teeth, and find them in the 
fame number and manner with thofe of a cat. And 
as to its food, they give it raw mutton every day; 
and when it is fick, which it often is, they give it a 
live 
