OF QUADRUPEDS. 
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ZEBRA. 
The Zebra is the handsomest and most 
elegant clothed of all quadrupeds. He has 
the shape and graces of the horse, the swift- 
ness of the stag, and a striped robe of black 
and white, alternately disposed, with so 
much symmetry, that it seems as if Nature 
bud made use of the rule and compass to 
paint it. 
The Zebra is, in general, less than the 
horse, and larger than the ass ; and although 
it has often been compared to those two 
animals, and called the wild horse, and the 
striped ass, it is a copy of neither the one 
nor the other, but might rather be called 
their model, if every species had not an 
equal right to creation. He is, however, 
very ferocious and untractable ; and is a 
native of Africa. 
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