NATURAL HISTORY. 
The CAMELOPARD. 
TP HE camelopard fomewhat refembles the 
deer in form, without its fymmetry. It has 
been found eighteen feet high, and ten from 
the ground to the top of the llioulder. The 
hinder parts are fo low, that, when Handing 
upright, it greatly refembles a dog lining. 
Neither the form nor the temper of this ani- 
mal adapts him for hoHility or defence ; he is 
therefore timorous and innoffenlive, and, 
notwithftanding its fize, will endeavour to 
avoid, rather than attack an enemy. It is 
chiefly a native of Ethiopia. The extiaor- 
dinary length of his fore-legs obliges him to 
divide them when he feeds on vegetables ; 
to avoid which trouble, he fubfills moftly on 
the leaves of trees. It is very rare in Eu- 
rope ; but in earlier times it was known to 
the Romans, as, among the colledfion of eaft- 
ern animals, made on the celebrated Pra;ne- 
ftine pavement, by the direction of Scylla, 
the camelopard is found. It was likewife 
exhibited by Julius Ccclar, in the Ciicean 
games. 
It was fuppolcd by the Greeks to be gene- 
rated between a camel and a leopard, fiom 
whence it derives its name. It is fo uncom- 
mon, that not above one or two have been 
feen in Europe for many hundred years. 
Some have necks fifteen teet long. When 
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