. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . light-gray hairs : The eye-brows and whifkers areblack: The hair in general is fine and fliort j but thedark line which borders upon the white confifts of long-er hairs, which the animal is able to expand to thebreadth of eight or nine inches, particularly on taking ahigh leap. When purfued, it is no lefs pleafant than cu-rious to fee the whole herd jumping over each othersheads to a confiderable height: Some of them will takethree or four high leaps fucceflively. In this fituation,they feem fufpended in the air, looking over t
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . light-gray hairs : The eye-brows and whifkers areblack: The hair in general is fine and fliort j but thedark line which borders upon the white confifts of long-er hairs, which the animal is able to expand to thebreadth of eight or nine inches, particularly on taking ahigh leap. When purfued, it is no lefs pleafant than cu-rious to fee the whole herd jumping over each othersheads to a confiderable height: Some of them will takethree or four high leaps fucceflively. In this fituation,they feem fufpended in the air, looking over their Ihcul- 96 ^ HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. ders at their purfuers, and at the fame time (hewing thewhite part of their backs in a moft beautiful manner. The Springers are fo extremely fwift, as to require agood Horfe to overtake them; although they are fome-times bold enough to allow a fportfman, eitlier on footor on horfeback, to come within gun-fliot of them.—Their flefli is very palatable, and has a more juicy anddelicate tafle than that of the other THE ELK-ANTELOPE. (^Le CodoiiSy BufF.) This Is an Inhabitant of the Cape, as well as thegreateft part of India, and is one of the larger kinds ofGazelles. It has ftraight horns, two feet in length, of adark-brown colour, marked with two prominent fpiralribs running near two-thirds of their length, but fmooth HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 97 towards the ends, which are turned a little inwards: Theforehead is flat, and broad at the top j and has a forelock,(landing eredi, the whole length of it: Its nofe is (harp }and its breaft is covered with a loofe flcin. This animal is of an alh colour, inclining a little to-wards blue 5 has a thin upright mane, quite black, whichextends from the nape of its neck along the top of theback J it has a tuft of black hair at the end of the tail. The Elk-Antelopes live chiefly in plains and rallies;and, when hunted, always run, if poflible, againft thewind : They are not very fwift; and being in
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