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AN UNCAGED ZOO 
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chew the cud but divide not the hoof; therefore they 
are unclean unto you” (Deut. xiv. 7 ; also Lev. xi. 5). 
It is odd that such a shrewd man as Moses had some 
doubt concerning the zoological affinities of the coney, 
for he classes it with mammals as dissimilar as a camel 
This animal has many names. In the Old Testament it is the Coney. 
In Africa men know it as the Rock-Rabbit or the Dassfe. 
Zoologists cannot agree on a suitable name ; some prefer Hyrax 
and others Procavia. 
and a hare, but it does not ‘‘ chew the cud.” The fond¬ 
ness of these curious animals for rocks is well set out 
in Psalm civ. 18. The high hills are a refuge for 
the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies (also 
Proverbs, xxx. 26). 
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