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" even be difficult to discover any difference be-
" tween them *." " In Africa and in Asia," says
Buffon, " wild boars are as plentiful as in Eu-
" rope." This passage left us equally uncertain
respecting the race of these animals in Africa:
but the uncertainty has since been removed with
great appearance of probability, Buffon having
given an account and figure of an African wild
boar~\-, which is distinguishable by several pecu-
liar characteristics, so that we have reason to pre-
sume the hanzire of Egypt and the African wild
loar to be the same animal.
* Description de l'Egypte, page 31. ,
+ Hist. Nat. du Cochon. Suppl. k 1'Hist. Nat. des Qnadru.
pedes.
" even be difficult to discover any difference be-
" tween them *." " In Africa and in Asia," says
Buffon, " wild boars are as plentiful as in Eu-
" rope." This passage left us equally uncertain
respecting the race of these animals in Africa:
but the uncertainty has since been removed with
great appearance of probability, Buffon having
given an account and figure of an African wild
boar~\-, which is distinguishable by several pecu-
liar characteristics, so that we have reason to pre-
sume the hanzire of Egypt and the African wild
loar to be the same animal.
* Description de l'Egypte, page 31. ,
+ Hist. Nat. du Cochon. Suppl. k 1'Hist. Nat. des Qnadru.
pedes.