C A TV 
Jake' Balkajh , whofe ikin fells on the fpot for one 
pound fterling V 
, The antients celebrated the great quicknefs of 
its fight and feigned that its urine was converted 
into a precious flone *j% 
ViSia racemifero Lyncas dedit In d i a Baccfto: 
E quibtis (ut nmnorant) quicquid d/efica femijify 
Vertitur in Lapides y et congelat Aera tatto. Ovid. Met. xv. 413, 
JjV Bay, C. with a lliort tail: irides yellow: ears upright, 
and fharp pointed, tufted with long black hairs: 
color of the head, back, fides, and exterior parts 
of the legs, bright bay, obfcurely marked with 
dufky fpots: down the face marked with black 
flripes, pointing to the nofe : each fide the upper 
lip three rows of minute black fpots, with long 
ftiff hairs iffuing out of them: orbits edged with 
white : from beneath each eye certain long black 
firipes, of an incurvated form, mark the cheeks ; 
which with the upper and under lip, whole under 
fide of the body, and infides of the legs, are 
white : the upper part of the infide of the fore 
legs marked with two black bars : upper part of the 
tail barred with dufky ftrokes •, and next the end, 
one of a deep black; its tip and under fide white : 
about twice the bignefs of a large cat: the hair 
fhorter and fmoother than that of the laid. 
Inhabits the inner parts of the province of New- 
York . 
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* RitchkqflP s Orenb. Topog. I. 
f Plinii, lib . via. c. 38. xxviii. c. 8. 
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