. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . B3 22 HISTORY OF THE ZEBRA. [Equus Zehra, Lin.—Le Zehr, Buff.) Many authors have miflaken the Zebra for a wildAfs -, it is the moll beautiful, as well as the wildeft, mofttimid, and untameable animal in nature. It is largertlian the Afs, and ratlier refembles the Mule in fliape:Its head is large; its ears long ; its legs beautifully fmall,and well placed j and its body well formed, round, andflefliy: But the beauty of its fhape is greatly heightenedby the glofly fmoothnefs of its Ikin, and the amazing re-gularity a
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . B3 22 HISTORY OF THE ZEBRA. [Equus Zehra, Lin.—Le Zehr, Buff.) Many authors have miflaken the Zebra for a wildAfs -, it is the moll beautiful, as well as the wildeft, mofttimid, and untameable animal in nature. It is largertlian the Afs, and ratlier refembles the Mule in fliape:Its head is large; its ears long ; its legs beautifully fmall,and well placed j and its body well formed, round, andflefliy: But the beauty of its fhape is greatly heightenedby the glofly fmoothnefs of its Ikin, and the amazing re-gularity and elegance of its colours, which in feme arewhite and brown, and in others white and black, rangedin alternate ftripes over the whole body, in a ftile fo beau-tiful and ornamental, that it would at firft fight feem ra-tlier the effect of art, than the genuine produ£l:ion of na-tture: The head is flriped with fine bands of black andwhite, which form a center in the forehead; the neck isadorned with ftripes of the hme colour rtmning round m HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 23 it; the body Is beautif
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