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CAT. 
XIX. CAT. 
t 20 . Lion. 
Six cutting teeth, and two canine in each jaw. 
Five toes before •, four behind. 
Sharp hooked claws, lodged in a fheath that may 
be exerted or drawn in at pleafure. 
Round head, and fhort vifage : rough tongue. 
* With long tails. 
Leo PUnit, lib. viii. c. 16. Gefner Felis Leo. F. cauda elongata, 
quad. 572. Raiifyn. quad. 162. corpore helvulo. Linfyji. 60. 
Lowe Klein quad. 81. Le Lion de Buff on, ix. 1. tab. I. 
Felis cauda in floccum defineute. II. 
Brijfon quad. 194. 
C. with a large head : fhort rounded ears : face co¬ 
vered with fhort hairs : upper part of the head, 
chin, whole neck and fhoulders, with long fhaggy 
.hairs, like a mane: hair on the body and limbs 
fhort and fmooth ^ along the bottom of the belly 
long : limbs of vaft ftrength : tail long, with a 
tuft of long hairs at the end : color tawny, but on 
the belly inclines to white : length of the largeft 
lion from nofe to tail above eight feet: the tail four 
feet: the lionefs or female is lefs, and wants the 
mane. 
An inhabitant of all parts of Africa ; and the hot 
parts of Afia , fuch as India and Perjia y and a few 
are ftill met with in the deferts between Bagdat and. 
Bafforah , on the banks of the Euphrates *, but they 
are found in greateft numbers in the torrid zone, 
where their fize is the largeft, and their rage more 
tremendous. 
