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3 ndld^ctedin tbebookof Job*. This nimal'Mi eametimeg found
4 ilooe, but giA«ner in heidi. It resenlbleB a mule ndwr-tfaan ah ai^
5 bill is of the colour of tbe latter. It is remarkable ftr its ibynBMb
6 and still more for its speed: at a kind of shuffling Hot peculiar to
7 itaelf, it will leave the fleetest horses behind. Hie foxes may also be
8 mentiooed; they are less than our fox» but somewhat larger than the
9 common one of India ; their backs are of the same brownish colofur
10 witli the latter, but in one part of the desart, their legs and belly up
11 to a certain height, are black, and in another, white. The line be-
12 tween those colours and the brown is so distinctly marked, that the
13 one kind soems as if it had been wading up to the belly iu mk, and
14 the other in wliite-wash.
15 The rest oi the desart lor about one hundred miles from Poc^gul
16 to Bahawuipore, "wsm a flat of hard clay which sounded under our
17 bcwses feet like a board. In lome places siuall hills were formed by saiul
18 apparoiiUy blown offier |be clay ; on these were aamebinhes of Fhoke^
19 sad seme little plants^ wild ni^ and of a kind called Linri» wbidi
20 besrs a strong resemblance to eyfiriastingb aiid wbidi » said to yieU
21 idmhdanoe of alkali when bailed. Tbe da^ was destHute of all
22 veg^tatioDf and in tliis .tractt «iee|pfting the ftrt andpocd of Moajgnr,
23 snd two wells about siztesn miles fiom Bshawnlpooir, there is
24 neithw water nor inhabitants to be fimnd ; jet, as we traveled fiom
25 the first on tbe rOad adopted by all caravans, it may be psciiimed
26 that we saw the most habitable portion of the whole.
27 It h obvious, that a desartt sodi as I have described, could not be
28 passed without preparation ; camels had accordingly been hirctl at
29 Canoimd to carry wat^ and pioviaiiHia» which completed the number
30 * Who hai aent oat the wild tm free? or who has kxwod the bond* of the wild a^?
31 whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land Ids dwellings : he soora^
32 the multitude of the city, neither rc^j irtl; tli lu- the crying id' tin- driver. Tlie range of the
33 mountainB i» hi* pMture, and he eearciies after every grocn thing. Job xxxIx. 5, 6, 7>
34 ndS.
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