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abound too much in the ftreets, and moleft the in- 
habitants. The men entrufted with the execution 
°f thefe orders go through the city in the night, 
and drop fmall bits of poifoned bread in the ftreets; 
thefe are eaten by the Dogs, and inftantaneoufly 
hill them : before fun-rife, the fame men go thro’ 
*he ftreets with a cart, gather hundreds of the dead 
■Dogs, and carry them to the Jews burying-ground 
Without the town. 
4 - Viverra Ichneumon £ . The Ichneumon of the 
Nile. 
It is met with both in Upper and Lower Egypt, 
hving, during the inundation of the Nile, in gar- 
hens and near the villages ; but in the dry feafon it 
hves in the fields, and near the banks of the Nile, 
h creeps flowly along, as if ready to feize its prey, 
feeds on plants, eggs and fowls; killing the latter 
the night, when it frequents the villages. In 
Upper Egypt it fearches for the eggs of the Croco- 
at le, which lie hid in the fand on the Ihore, and 
e ats them, preventing by that means the increafe 
that dangerous animal. The Ichneumon may ea- 
hy be tamed, and frequently goes about the houfes 
“he a Cat. Mr. Barton, who has been the Eng- 
““h Conful nineteen years in Egypt, has kept a 
at ? e one for feveral years. It makes a growling 
one, and barks when it is very angry. The 
-Fabians call it Nems. The French in Egypt, who 
give every thing they don’t know names of their 
jvn making, have called this Rat de Pharaon, which 
e Latin writers of Egypt, viz. Alpinus and Bello- 
ws, have followed, and called it Mus Pharaonis 
f Lin. Syft. Nat. P. 43. N. i.l 
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