SLOTH. 
Burbot and Bofman defcribe an animal by the name 
of Petto , to which they give the attributes of the 
former, and defcribe as being grey when young, 
red, and covered with a fort of hair as thick fet as 
flocks of wool. Both thefe writers were fenfible 
.men, and tho s not naturalifb, were too obfervant of 
the animals of Guinea to miftabe one whofe characters 
are fo ftrongly marked as thofe of the Sloth *. 
* Bofman 9 237. Barbot , 212. 
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