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'. te overtake them in the chafe. Their fwiftnefs has 
afforded many beautiful fimilies and allufions in the 
eaftern poetry. ‘The eye of, the antelope is {uppofed 
to be the moit beautiful of any animal in the world, 
blending brilliancy with meeknefs. Some of this fpe- 
’ gs form themfelves into herds of two or three thouf- 
and, and generally feek their food in hilly countries. 
Several fyftematic writers have erroneoufly ranked 
this animal among the goat kind; for it forms an in- 
termediate genus between that {pecies and the deer 
the texture and permanency of the horns agreeing 
with the firft, while their ficetnefs and elegance ‘ac- 
cord with the latter. 
There is another fpecies of this animal, called the 
Royal Antelope, or Littke Guinea Deer, which is the 
leait and moft beautiful of all the cloven footed race. 
Et is f{carcely nine inches high, and the {mall part of 
its legs are little thicker than a goofe quill. It 1s moft 
delicately fhaped, refembling that of a ftag in minia- 
ture, except that the horns of the male (for the fe- 
male has none) are hollow and annulated, asin the 
‘Gazelle kind. It has broad ears, and two canine teeth 
in the upper jaw. The celour is as beautiful as the 
fymmetry of this little animal, being of a fine glofly 
yellow, except the neck and belly, which parts are 
perfectly white. Itisa native of Senegal, and fome 
parts of Africa. It is fo active, that it will’ bound o- 
ver a wall, twelye feet high. It is eafily tamed, when 
it becomes very entertaining and familiar, but of fo 
delicate a conftitution, that it can bear none but the 
hotteft climates.  _, Pi i: 
Of antelopes there are, befides thofe before defcrib. 
ed, the following different {pecies : Common, Blue, 
Egyptian, Bezoar, Hanaffed, African, Indoftan, 
White footed, Swift, Red, Striped, Chinefe, Scythi- 
an, Cervine and Senegal Antelope. __ : 
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