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The CHEVROTAIN and MEMINNA.

The Chevrotain, or little Guinea Deer, is the fmallefl:
of all the Antelope kind, the leaft of all cloven-footed
quadrupeds, and, we may add, the moll beautiful. Itá
fore legs, at the fmalleft part, are not much thicker than
a tobacco-pipe ; it is not more than feven inches in
height, and about twelve from the. point of the nofe to
the infertion of the tail ; its ears are broad ; and its
horns, which are ftraight, and fcarcely two inches long,
are black and ihining as jet; the colour of the hair is a
reddifh-brown ; in fome a beautiful yellow, very ihort
and glofly.

Thefe elegant little creatures are .rlativcs of Senegal
and the hotteil parts of Africa ; they are likewife found
in India, and in many of the illands adjoining to that
vail continent-

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