Identifier: travelstodiscov05bruc (find matches)
Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes
Year: 1790 (1790s)
Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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modern naturalifls,, appears to have been known tothe ancients in the eaft. In Ecclefiafticus (chap. xiii. vei\ 18.)it is laid, What agreement is there between the hyama.and the dog ? a iufficient proof that the antipathy was fowell known as to be proverbial. And I mufl here obferve, that if there is any precision inthe definition of Linnaeus, this animal does not anfwer to it,either in the cauda recta or annulata, for he never carries histail creel:, butalways clofe behindhim like a dog whenafraid,or unlefs when he is in full fpeed; nor is the figure givenby M. de Buffon marked like the hyama of Atbara, though,as have I faicl, perfectly refembling that of Syria, and thefigure I have here given has, I believe, fcarcely a hair mif-placed in it. Upon the whole, I fubmit this entirely to myreader, being fatisfied v/ith having, I hope, fully provedwhat was the intent of this difiertation, that the faphan isnot the hysena, as Greek commentators upon the fcripturehave imagined. JERBOA. ■
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( ^Sc//wtf J„>/iJ»/i ft//>7i//i</Mi; ./fij^y.fo/tr.At/in/.t.r?! ,v. APPEND TX. til JERBO A.. HAVE already obferved that the Arabs have confoundedthe Saphan with feveral other animals that have nofort of refemblace to it; there are two of thefe very remark-able, the Fennec and Jerboa, of which I am now to treat,As I have given excellent figures- of both, by drawings ta-ken from the creatures alive, I have no doubt I ihall pre-vent any confufion for the future, and throw fome lightupon facredfcripture, the greater! profit and ufe that carrrefult from this fort of.writing.. If the rabbit lias: been frequently confounded with the:faphan, and-flood for it in the interpretation of the Hebrewtext, the fame has likewife happened to another animal, theJerboa,full more dimmilar inform and in manners from thefaphan, than even the rabbit itfelf, and muchlefs known,The Jerboa is a fmall harmlefs animal of the defert, nearlythe fize of a common rat: the fldn very fmooth and mining,of a

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