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GIRAFFE. 
v * CIRAFFE * Horns fhort, upright, truncated at the top. 
Neck and ftioulders of a vaft length. 
Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, the two out- 
moft bilobated. No teeth in the upper jaw. 
12. Camelo- Camelopardalis Plinii lib. viii. 160. Raiifyn. quad. 90. . Brijfon 
PARD. c. 18. Dion Cqffius, lib. 43. Free- quad. 37. De Buffon^ xiii. 1. 
nefi. pwvem. apud Shaw fuppl. 88. Cervus Camelopardalis. C. cor- 
Oppian cyneg. iii. 466. nibus fimplicibus, pedibus anti- 
La Giraffe que les Arabes nom,- cis longiffimis. Lin. jyfi. 92. 
ment Zurnapa. Bclon obf. 118. Tragus GirafFa. Klein quad. 22. 
119. Leo Afr. 337. Gefner quad. 
G. with fhort ftrait horns covered with hair, and 
truncated at the end and tufted with hair : in the 
forehead a tubercle about two inches high refem- 
bling a third horn: height from the crown of the 
head to the foies of the fore feet 17 feet: that from 
the top of the rump to the bottom of the hind feet 
only nine : length of the neck feven : from the wi¬ 
thers to the loins only fix: the fore legs not longer 
than the hind legs; but the fhoulders of a vaft 
length, which gives the difproportionate height be¬ 
tween the fore and hind parts: horns fix inches: 
head like that of a ftag: neck (lender and elegant, 
and on the upper fide is a fhort mane : ears large: 
tail long, with ftrong hairs at the end: color of the 
whole animal a dirty white marked with large broad 
rufty fpots. 
Inhabits the forefts of AEthiopia and other interior 
parts of Africa , is very timid, but not fwift: from 
the ftrange length of its fore legs, cannot graze 
without dividing them to a vaft diftance * it there¬ 
fore 
