A supplement to a book entituled Travels, or observations, etc. Wherein some objections, lately made against it [by R. Pococke], are fully considered and answered: with several additional remarks and dissertations / By Thomas Shaw.

  • Thomas Shaw
Date:
1746
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Credit: A supplement to a book entituled Travels, or observations, etc. Wherein some objections, lately made against it [by R. Pococke], are fully considered and answered: with several additional remarks and dissertations / By Thomas Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have a Power of charming and bringing down, into their Mouths, Birds, and other Animals ; it may be prefumed, that we have here, long ago, an Action of this Kind, very perti¬ nently recorded. Among thofe Animals, that are diftinguilhed by their Names, and are likewife well known, we may give the firft Place to the Reem- pinokepoc Now as this is the only Animal, that we are ac¬ quainted with, which is (ufually) armed with one Horn, it has been generally taken, by our Commentators, for the [on] Reem or Unicorn, as the word is frequently tranflated. For what has been commonly taken for the Unicorns Horn, (which may have led feveral Authors into the Miftake, that it belonged to fome other fwifter Creature,) is not the Horn of a Qua¬ druped, but of a cetaceous Fifh, called the Nervahl. And moreover, the Rhinoceros, from the very Make and Structure of it’s Body, appears to be the ftrongeft of Quadrupeds, the Elephant not excepted. In exprefling therefore the Strength of Ifrael, Numb. xg. xx. it is juftly compared to the Strength of the Reem or Rhinoceros. Reem then cannot be, as Schul- tens and others have interpreted it, the Oryx or Bubalrn, or indeed any other Species of the clean Quadrupeds, which will by no means anfwer to this Defcription of it. The Time, from the Roundnefs of it’s Spots, (for it has The Time, no long ones) fliould be rather reprelented for the Leopard or Tanther\ though both of them are Natives of thefe Countries; this of Egypt, the other of Ethiopia. Perhaps the aeaina or Lionefs is rather delineated here than The aeaina. the Male, to fliew the Fertility of the Species:; which is fome- times known to produce four or five Whelps. Trav. p. x^y. The ains is incorre£tly given us for atth; the n, in this The auk. Name and the omntia, being incorre&ly placed inftead of the r. By the Figure and Attitude, it appears to be the fame Creature, with the Quadruped (L), which the Ethiopians are fhooting at, in the upper Part of the Pavement. Now, as the Lynx is fuppofed to be the ©a* or Lupus cervarius of the An¬ cients ; it can bear little or no Affinity at all, with this Crea- i In Bartoli's Drawings, which will be hereafter mentioned, the Name is PIISfOK^YCOC : which, I prefume, muft be a Miftake. The ingenious Dr. Parfons (Phil. Tranf. N°. 470.) has given us a moft accurate Figure, as well as a very curious Difleitation, upon this Animal. The initial Letter of the Preface is copied from this Drawing. z i ture.