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Of Quadruped’s 
Part I. 
Ruck, They are a yard high, with numerous, and round 
Branches. Covered all over with an afhcolour’d hair, a 
i of an inch long, and handing upright, as the Pile of 
Velvet. 
The HORNES of an Indian Roe-Buck .; which the 
people of Brafile call Cuguacu-apara. See the Defcnption 
of the Animal in Marggrarim. His Picture in Johnflon $ but 
under the name of the Capreolm Marinus. 
The HORNES of a Roe-Deer of Greenland. They 
are very little more than an inch long, and half an inch 
over. They are pointed at the top, and knobed or tube¬ 
rous at the bottom. 
(a) Joh. de Deer in New Mexico fo big, ( a ) that they breed them up 
^hT'chfim- to draw with,as we do with Oxen and Horfes. So ftrangely 
tionof Aifon- does the Climat alter the Bulk ot Lome Animals. Dear, 
mvidcs. Ec ~ an d they only, may be fuppos’d to calf their horns, becaufe 
they have neither a long Tail, as Oxen ; nor fo long hair 
as a Goat or a Ram; by either of which is made a conti¬ 
nual confumption of the fame matter, which in Deer 
goes into the horns. The horns of Deer, are of all other 
thefulleft of Volatile Salt. Which may lead us to con¬ 
jecture of the like nature of his flefh, and blood 5 and the 
caufe of his great falacity. 
The ROCK-DOE. Ibex foemina. A kind of wild 
Goat. See the Defcription of Pliny , and Bellonius. She 
breeds chiefly upon the Alps. A Creature of admirable 
fwiftnefs. And may probably be that very Species men- 
(b) Chap, tion d in the Book of Job. [b) Her horns grow fometimes fo 
3i> ' far backward, as to reach over her Buttocks. 
The H'ORNES ofthe WREATHED-Horn- 
Goat, or Antilope of Barbary , called Capra Strepjicerotes, and 
GazeIIa. See the Defcription of the Animal in Wormius. 
Thefe Hornes are about a foot and Hong. Butin S ep ta¬ 
li us s Mufd’um there is one pair faid to be above a yard in 
length. They are twifted into a kind of fpiral fhape, but 
the Rings which feem to be fpiral, are really circular. 
The BONE of the ANTILOPES HORN; 
which is folid, and alfo fpiral or twifted, but without Rings. 
Given by Henry Whittier Efq 5 . 
The HORNES ofthe SYRIAN GOAT; 
called Capra Mambrina 1. Syriaca being. Mambre, a Moun¬ 
tain 
