. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . M3 182 HISTORY OF ;^;^««««*» THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. {Hlppopotamus Amphihius^ Lin.—UHlppopotame, BuiF.) The great difficulties that have always attended a com-plete inveftigation of this huge animal, have arifen aswell from the remotenefs of its fituation, as from its pe-culiar habits and difpofition. Though the Hippopotamus has been celebrated fromthe remoteft antiquity ; though the facred writings men-tion him under the name of Behemoth; and though his fi-gure is to be feen engraven on Egyptian obeliflcs and
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . M3 182 HISTORY OF ;^;^««««*» THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. {Hlppopotamus Amphihius^ Lin.—UHlppopotame, BuiF.) The great difficulties that have always attended a com-plete inveftigation of this huge animal, have arifen aswell from the remotenefs of its fituation, as from its pe-culiar habits and difpofition. Though the Hippopotamus has been celebrated fromthe remoteft antiquity ; though the facred writings men-tion him under the name of Behemoth; and though his fi-gure is to be feen engraven on Egyptian obeliflcs and onRoman medals, yet his hiilory was very imperfe£tlyknown to the ancients. Ariftotle fays, that he has amane like a Horfe, and hoofs like an Ox \ tuflcs and taillike a Boar ; that he is of the fize of an Afs, and has thevoice of a Horfe •, M^ith other things equally abfurd;—all which Pliny has copied ; and, inftead of corre(n:ing,has added to the number of his errors.—Of the accountspf later writers, it is much to be lamented that fuitable HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 183 delineation
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