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tural enemy of mice ; watches them with great gra¬ 
vity : does not always reject vegetables : wafhes its 
face with its fore feet, Limans fays, at the approach 
of a ftorm : fees by night: its eyes fhine in the 
dark : its hair emits fire, when rubbed in the dark : 
always lights on its feet: proverbially tenacious of 
life : very cleanly •, hates wet: is fond of perfumes; 
marum valerian , catmint . The unaccountable anti¬ 
pathy of multitudes : beloved by the Mahometans: 
Maill'et , who fays that the cats of AEgypt are very 
beautifull, adds, that the inhabitants build hofpitals 
for them*. 
** Yfith fiiort tails. 
Le Chat-pard pourfervir Felis Pardalis. F. cauda elonga- 134. Moun- 
a rhifl. Nat. An. part. I. no. ta, corpore maculis fuperioribus tain. 
Catus Pardus five Catus Monta- virgatis, inferioribus orbiculatis. 
nus Americanorum. the Cat a Lin.jyfi. 62. Brijfon quad. igg. 
mountain. Raii jyn. quad. 169. 
C. with upright pointed ears, marked with two 
brown tranfverfe bars : color of the head, and whole 
upper part of the body, a reddifh brown, marked 
with long narrow fpots on the back ; and with nu¬ 
merous round fmall fpots on the fides : the belly 
whitifh : the chin and throat of a pure white: the 
tail barred with black: the length of this animal 
two feet and a half; that of the tail eight inches. 
Inhabits America : grows very fat: is a mild and 
gentle animal. 
* Voy. VEgypt, 30, 
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