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in length about four feet, in form between the wolf and hog; the head reembling the wolf’s, but rather horter, and black from the noe to jut above the eyes; the colour a greyih brown, marked down the body and legs with darker tripes, inclining to black; tands remarkably high before, and low behind, being in front about three feet and a half, and behind about two feet and a half high; is very lank or thin in the body, with a ridge of britles like a hog, all along the pine, and a bruh tail.

The Hyæna is a remarkably unociable and olitary animal, dwelling in the holes and chams of rocks, or in dens which it has formed in the earth; it is found in high, mountainous countries, in the mountains of Caucaus, the Atlantic chain, parts of Syria, Peria, and Barbary, the mot dreary and terile parts of the Torrid Zone, of which, ays Mr. Buffon, it is a native.

This animal poees great trength of body, and fiercenes of courage; it will reit the attacks of the Lion—(Kaempfer relates that he aw one which had put two Lions to flight)—he never declines a combat with the fiercet of the foret, and eldom fails to conquer—poeing great cruelty and fiercenes, he is generally reckoned untamable. Mr. Buffon mentions to have een one, and Mr. Pennant another in a dometic tate; the latter Gentleman thinks, if taken very young, they may be reclaimed by good uage, but oberves, they are commonly kept in a tate of ill humour by the provocations of their mater.

Hunger eems ever to torment them with an inatiable voracity; they greedily devour whatever comes in their way, and will even root up the contents of the grave, and with a keen appetite conume the putrid corps.

The ancients had very trange notions of this animal, believing that it changed ex every year; this opinion, no doubt, originated from the tranvere orifice which is between the tail and the anus: they alo believed that a tone was found in the eye which imparted the power of prophecy. Mr. Shaw, in his travels into Barbary, oberves, the Arabs always bury the head of this animal, whenever they kill one, let it hould be applied to purpoes of magic; it was alo believed, the Hyæna had the property of imitating the human voice, and thereby educe unwary travellers within its power; this the experience of modern times does not confirm, yet a gentleman told us, he once heard one make a noie reembling the laughing of a man, when the keeper had jut given him ome proviion, which he made as if going to take away—this was, probably, no more than a note of dipleaure, which every animal poees, uch as the growl of a cat with a moue when any one approaches.—To conclude, no words can convey an adequate idea of the voracious and fierce apect of the Hyæna, or of his uncouth, ill-formed hape.