ANTELOPE THIBET 
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ANTELOPE 'TRIBE, 
The antelopes are in general an elegant and 
active tribe of animals, inhabiting mountainous 
countries, where they bound among the rocks with 
so much lightness and elasticity, as to strike the 
spectator with astonishment. Some of them reside 
in the plains, where herds of two or three thou- 
sand are sometimes to be seen together. They 
browse like goats, and frequently feed on the ten- 
der shoots of trees. In disposition they are timid 
and restless, and nature has bestowed on them long 
and tendenous legs, peculiarly appropriated to 
their habits and manners of life. These, in some 
of the species, are so slender and brittle, as to snap 
with a very trifling blow ; the Arabs, taking ad- 
vantage of this circumstance, catch them by 
throwing at them sticks, by which iileir legs are 
entangled and broken. 
We shall complete the description of their cha- 
racter from Goldsmith, who calls them gazelles. 
The gazelles, of which there are several kinds* 
can, with propriety, be referred neither to the goat 
nor the deer ; and yet they partake of both na- 
tures. Like the goat, they have hollow horns 
that never fall, which is otherwise in the deer. 
They have a gall-bladder, which is found in the 
goat, and not in the deer. On the other hand, they 
resemble the roe buck in size and delicacv of 
form ; they have deep pits under the eyes like that 
animal : they resemble the roe buck in the colour 
and nature of their hair; they resemble him in 
the bunches upon their legs, which only differ in 
being upon the fore legs in these, and on the hind 
legs in the other. They seem, therefore* to be of 
