THE 
ENTERTAINING NATURALIST. 
Book I. 
I. QUADEUPEDS, OE FOUE-FOOTED BEASTS. 
§ I. Carnivorous, or Flesh-eating Animals. 
THE LION. (Felis Leo.) 
The Lion is called the king of beasts, not only from his 
grave and majestic appearance, but from his prodigious 
strength. Zoologists describe him as an animal of the 
cat kind, distinguished from the other species of the 
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