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AND LOWER EGYPT. I43
mine, beside the merit of priority in point of time,
contain more facts, and present a history more
complete, of those singular animals ; this is at least
the idea entertained of them, at the time, by the
learned world ; I satisfy myself with quoting the
authors of the Encyclopedic Journal. In the ac-
count which they gave of the fifth volume of
Travels in Nubia and Abyssinia, by Mr. James Bruce,
and after having transcribed his chapter onthejer-
bo, they add : " The ancients had described this
u animal. Herodotus, Theophrastus, and the
** Arabs, make mention ofthejerbo; but among
" the moderns, no naturalist has described it better
" than M. Sonnini, &c. who has travelled several
" years to promote the progress of natural history."
The compilers of that publication afterwards give
an extract from my observations *.
■ The memoir, which I printed in 1787, will here,
therefore, naturally find a place, and the rather,
that it will now appear accompanied with additions
highly interesting to natural history.
Since the time that the eloquent compositions of
Buffon have given a powerful impulse to the sci-
ence of nature, which he has had the skill to render
so attractive and so amiable, varieties have been
* Encyclopedic Journal for the month of September, A. D.
discovered
mine, beside the merit of priority in point of time,
contain more facts, and present a history more
complete, of those singular animals ; this is at least
the idea entertained of them, at the time, by the
learned world ; I satisfy myself with quoting the
authors of the Encyclopedic Journal. In the ac-
count which they gave of the fifth volume of
Travels in Nubia and Abyssinia, by Mr. James Bruce,
and after having transcribed his chapter onthejer-
bo, they add : " The ancients had described this
u animal. Herodotus, Theophrastus, and the
** Arabs, make mention ofthejerbo; but among
" the moderns, no naturalist has described it better
" than M. Sonnini, &c. who has travelled several
" years to promote the progress of natural history."
The compilers of that publication afterwards give
an extract from my observations *.
■ The memoir, which I printed in 1787, will here,
therefore, naturally find a place, and the rather,
that it will now appear accompanied with additions
highly interesting to natural history.
Since the time that the eloquent compositions of
Buffon have given a powerful impulse to the sci-
ence of nature, which he has had the skill to render
so attractive and so amiable, varieties have been
* Encyclopedic Journal for the month of September, A. D.
discovered