
2000 years ago, : 
Alexander, was a Kini in part of Cieieds: 

OF PURE BORE  E 
ing back majeftically towards his tail, he mies 
in all his glory. | 
In the time of King Solomon tee reigned 
over the Jews, and was remarkable for his wily 
_dom,) they were brought to Jerufalem as great 
Le curiofities, as appears by the Scriptures; and 
when we ‘recollect that Solomon fpoke of trees 
from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, to the 
hyflop that fpringeth out of the wall, alfo ae 
beafts anid of fowls, we fhall not be furprifed that 
. in his fhips he thould have — Apes spe 
| Peacocks. 
p< The Peacock was not ‘Gasnale an eee 
a : pean bird; but was brought from the Eaft Indies 
in Afia, sy Alexander, who lived more than 
Peabich is ‘now called Turkey in Europe) and 
i. conquered part of Afia, he was fo much pleafed | 
with the beauty of the Peacock, that he ordered 
that none fhould be killed. About his time they 
were brought into Greece, and ‘increafed very 
faft. The Europeans have now diftributed them 
in moft parts of the world, in Africa, in North» 
America, and in feveral of the’ iflands in the 
Welt Indies. oo | ee 
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