. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. •csy, 7388. The camelopard (Camelopardalis Giraffa L.), a most singular and noble animal,seventeen feet high, and as tame and gentle as the camel, might also be naturalised. Itlives on the green spray of trees and grass, and frequents forests. 7389. The elephant, rhinoceros, nnish ox, and a variety of other exotic domestics,might be so far acclimate
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. •csy, 7388. The camelopard (Camelopardalis Giraffa L.), a most singular and noble animal,seventeen feet high, and as tame and gentle as the camel, might also be naturalised. Itlives on the green spray of trees and grass, and frequents forests. 7389. The elephant, rhinoceros, nnish ox, and a variety of other exotic domestics,might be so far acclimated as to live in Britain as they do in the Jardin des Plantes atParis, viz., with an enclosure for each sort, and a lodge or house for protection in winteror during inclement weather. Were as much attention paid to acclimating foreignanimals as there is directed to the same branch of culture in plants, we should soonpossess a rich Fauna; and the public taste may in time take this direction. 7390. In acclimating the more tender animals, it might be desirable to rear a fewgenerations, first in the south of Italy or in Spain, next in France, and afterwards in thesouth of England. But the camel, musk ox, zebra, quagga, and antelope might be ha
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