2, NATURAL HISTORY. 
-countries. We had, therefore, better leave the pro- 
-“* portioning the number of this animal to Him, who 
_ meafures all things by the fcale of his unerring wif- 
dom and providence. 
‘The eyes of a lion are always bright and fiery, even 
in death. ‘the paws, teeth and tongue, perfectly re- 
femble thofe of a cat; and, in their internal parts, 
there is {carcely any difference. 3 
_ His anger being noble, his courage magnanimous, 
his difpofition grateful, and his conquefts univerial 
over all other animals, he is juftly called, THE KING 
OF BEASTS. | : 
When hungry, he will attack any thing that comes 
in his way. His teeth are fo ftrong, that he breaks 
the bones of the ftrongeft animals, which he fwallows 
with the flefh.- He requires about fifteen pounds of 
flefh per day, and feldgm touches any putrid body. 
: 
— VEDI — 
PANTHER. 
"Tus beaft has been frequently miftaken for the 
tiger; which error arofe from its being nearly of the 
fame fize, poffefling the fame difpofition to cruelty, and 
a general enmity to‘the animal creation. Its chief dif- 
ference is in being {potted, and not. ftreaked as the 
uuger. ay m 
The panther is found in Barbary, and all the inter- 
mediate countries in Africa, that lie between that and 
Guinea; ands peculiar to Africa, as the tiger is to 
Afia. Althouth hunger impels it to attack every thing 
that has life, without diftin¢étion, yet it differs from the 
| tiger, in preferring, at other times, the fleth of animals 
to chat of mankind.—Like the tiger,’ it feizes its prey + 
by furprife, and will climb trees in purfuit of mi nk a 
and other creatures which feck an afylum thete. “It - 
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