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THE GAZELLE. 
This elegant animal belongs to the anteloj' 
family, the individuals of which, with the 
ception of two or three species, inhabit th* 
hottest parts of the globe, not extending ^ 
least beyond those regions of the tempera^ 
zones that border on the tropics. Thus noi'' 
of them, excepting the chamois and the saig’^ 
or Scythian antelope, are to be met with '' 
Europe ; and though the climate of great p^^ 
of America is suited to their nature, not ' 
single species has yet been discovered in tl*' 
New World. Their proper abodes seet* 
therefore, to be the hot countries of Asia at* 
Africa, and there the species are very P'* 
merous. 
A remarkable fact connected with the loC^ 
lity of the antelope genus is, that the sevet^ 
