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80 Dogs, and  together with  and  as it is pretended. Who is ignorant of the winged or flying Fihes; and of others with long Nebs or Bills like Birds; alo of Birds with four Feet, like Beats? And why then may there not be as well as  if any uch there be in rerum natura? for it is a difficult Matter to determine, what Kind of Animal the Scripture undertands, when it peaks of the Unicorn, as in Palm xxix. ver. 6. and in other Places: whether it be uch a one as Plinius and other Writers decribe, giving him the Body of a Hore, with a Stag's Head, and a Horn on his Snout; or whether it ought not with better Reaon be applied to a certain Animal in Africa, called Rhinoceros, whoe Snout in horned in that Fahion. If one had Patience to conider the vat Diagreement, that reigns between thee Writers, one would conclude that this Animal is peculiar to the Climate, where the fabulous Bird Phenix builds its Net; that is to ay, in Utopia, or no where. For ome decribe this