TO THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA. 
167 
to make the comparison ourselves, in Africa, c ha p - 
that we discovered the Jerboa to be the same 1 — ' 
kind of quadruped we had before known in 
the Crimea. Bochart supposes this little animal obse™- 
n • rm i * 1 ^ ons &° m 
to be the Saplicin of the Scriptures 4 : “ The high chan upon 
hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and so ' ° a ‘ 
are the stony rocks for the Saphannim this 
our Translation renders “ Conies .” Shaw is 
however undecided upon the subject ; but 
he supposes the Jerboa, from the remarka- 
ble disproportion of its fore and hinder legs, 
may be taken for one of the two-footed rats 
mentioned by Herodotus and by other authors 5 . 
The whole merit of either of these observations, 
if there be any, is due, first to the learned 
Bochart, and afterwards to the labours ot 
Haym, in the illustration of a medal of Cxjrene, 
where this animal is represented; but Shaw, 
after the introduction of those observations in 
his work, not only does not acknowledge whence 
he derived the information, but even asserts 
that the animal described by Haym was not 
the Jerboa. It seems clear that it was ; although. 
(4) See Ildt: kart, Hkrozoicon. Pars II. cap. 33. Land. 1663. “Pro- 
batur Saphan non esse cuniculuro, sed majoris muris genus, in Palses- 
tinft,” & c . &c. 
(5) Shaw’s Travels, p. 177. See also the Authors cited by him : 
Hen, lot. Melp. Theoph. apud Milan. Hist. Anim. lib. xv. c. 2G. Photius, 
ibid. Arist. de Murib. AEgypt. 
