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O P T HE I F OU R F OOT T E D
       is polliflrd like wood, elpecially with rough
  d   skin of a Skateor Sole.  Thebrightneffh of
  . C cZ. it is dimmed by womens termes.  It is of a
Dli    binding force, though it have no tafte. Thofe
       who have tried it, delivers, that it furthers
       conception, and lelps a moyft ffomach. The
       clouds in a face are taken away by the flhav-
       ings thereof, fmeared on with hony. The
       powder of it cures fellons, mixt with Harts-
       horns, it is good againft wormes. if burned
       to afhes, it is called Spodium: But men are
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        cozented with other tealts norns tor Enis.rlarts
        horne is more ufed then ivory.
Dif-      Their differences and (indes, are especially
rencus.  confidered from their places by Ancients, and
        later Writers. Since fome of them are feD,
Pll'of.  fome mountain, fome field, fome wood, or
I'iuiy. wild Elephants, fome Lybian, and Indian. So-
        linus mentions Prafian, and Taxilan ones.
          Thofe that haunt marf/hy-fens, their teeth
        are pale, thin, rough, and have in many places
        holes, in fome knobs like hail-ftones, nor
        cannot be well wrought onrbyArt. Thofe
        are maddilh, and light.
          The mountainers are perverfe, and crafiy,
        and never truft man, unleffi nleceffitie drives
        them to it. Their teeth are leffer, white
        enoulgh, and not very rough.
          Thofe that live ill fields, are accounteds
        gentle, tane , ..id love to imitate.  Their
        teeth are largeft, whiteft, and eafieft to be
        cut, and may be brought to what you pleafe.
          Thofe of the woods, in the Kingdome of
        Senega they are to be found, efpecially by
        the River Gambra; there they are by herds,
        as boors among us.
           The Lylian, or Moorifh, are leffe theen the
    I  Indian, and can endure neither tle voice,nor
        fellt oftlefe; nay they dare not formuch as
        look on them.
SOl"IUS. allThe Indian ones are greateft of all, yet not
        all of a bigneffe.  Solinus therefore divides
        them into two kinds, the nobler are known
        by their vaftneffe,theleeffr are called baftards.
           The Parfy are the greateft, fuch as Mada-
Scalig. gafcar produces. Thofe men call Taxilx, that
Exer.o4. areingreatnefe next to theformer. Thefe
        you find in Sumatra, very towardly, and ex-
        celling thofe on the Continent in good condi-
IElian.  tions, and inpgenuity.  Therefore they have
F. H-  been tranfported in great ihips to the faft
1. i6. c. I. and, (from that Ifland Sumatra) and fold to
        the Calingian King.
The       Our 4uthour promife a difcourfe of the ufe of
Tranfla- the Elephants in U'ar, and otherwije; whereof
tor.   are many noble relations extant.  Ys afore he
        omitted the difeafes of the Horjes; that are fo
        many, that it tz grown to anEngliJh proverb,
        He hath as many diJeafes as a Horfe. Hle Ui
        troubled withStagger, Bots, Glanders, Vives,
        Farcive, dc. But I mufi hold me to tranf-
        /41iOmg.
CHAPT ER VI.
  Of     jiVc Unicorn,  and cf tbe
             HorledAijtfs
P  1He name of Monoceros, that among Aldrov.
       the Latines founds fo much, as a one-  - Qad.
       horned beaft, agrees to many crea-
       tures; but in a ftrid fenfe, is retained
to one alone: namely that, who from having
Dut one norn, Dears the name ot unicorn.
In the Brachmans dialedt, called 1(artazonon,
whether there is, or hath been fuch a beaft in
nature: I liall elfewhere examine, after Bac-
cius, and Bartholinuf , the great fon of fo great
a father. For prefent Oe thall treat hereof
briefly, as refting on the fidelity of Relators.
  As for the def ription of the Unicorne, he StrabO.
is fald to refemble in his whole body the
Horfe  He is tailed like a Boor, grins and
fniarls like a Lyon, headed like an Hart, foot-
ed like an Elephant, furniliht with one onely Plill)
horn, andthatablack one, twocubi~tslong,
flanding in the inidft of his fore-head. Ijidore
makes him all one witli the ,Rhinoceros, and
faith that his horn is fo flharp and ftcong, that
what ever he itrikes at, he Ilatters, or peirces
it through. There was one feen in the fervice
of the great Chain of Tartary, in the King- M, Paul
dome of Lambris.  They are lefIe then Ele- Vc li. " 3
phants, holding their head downwards , like C.1i
a Swine, of a prickling tongue, wherewith
they get what they meet with; black eyed,and
very like the Rhinoceros. Lewis of Bar.
thema of Bononia, writes thus of the Uni-
corns feen by him: There are Dens on the
one fide of the Temple at Mecca, wherein Vartom,
are kept two Unicorns, that are Ihowen, asl. i. ci
the manner is, for a rarity.
  Concerning thefhape: Thegreater refem-
bled a Horfe-colt of thirty monthsold; his
horn, that he bears on his fore-head, is about
three ells in length ; the other was a year old,
his horn growni to four hand breadth.
  The colour ofthe beaft, fomewhat darker
then that of a Sumpter, or Pack. horfe, head-
ed like a Hart, ihort-necked, and thin-haired
thereabeut, fhort-mained, and that hanging
only on one fide: Small, and flender-legged,
like a Hinde: The feet a little cloven afore,
Goat-hoofed, the feet hairy on the right fide,
He feems feirce,and ofa nature affeding love-
lineffe. I adde not what Garzias hath out of
Hortus: They are faid to be found in the
Arabian Deferts, and to have been feen there Bart '
by Merchants; as alfo between the Cape of, eUI icor,
Good-Hope, and that they call the Currentes. c.24.
Some are in the Kingdom Bafma, and Lam- Cruni. H .
bris; fome in the utmoft parts of Afia, in the c.14.
Province Macinus, between the mountains of Paul.
India, and Cathay, where the Serici inhabite, Vc let
Some in the new world. The Horn is fiewen sylv.
in many places; the moft famous are, S.Denys Cadam.
in France, Venetia, Spain,Utrecht, Helvetia,
Denmark, Hampton-Court in England,
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