6                      1 Ihe Anatomical Defcription
to that of thle Leopard and Panther. It had no long and flender Neck like
thofe Animals? It was on the contrary in fome f6rt hforter than the CBs;
which we found to proceed in fome meafure from its extraordinary fatliefs.
  But in this it foemed to us repugnant to the nature of the Leopard, which
according to Gallen is the leanefi of all Animals, unlefs it be fIppofed
that
our Chat-pard was in-cndred of a Leopard and a Cat, and not of a Cat and
a
Pant/er; becaufe it is obfLrved that commonly when there is a mixture of
OSpcies, that which is thereby ingendred has more refemblance to the Damme
than the Sire, efpecially in that which repeEts the Form and Habit of the
Body.
  The arofhefsofthe bodv of the Hair, wvas proportionably of the length
as it is in Cats, . but it was fomew-lat fhortcr. The Colour which molt pre-
vailed all ovcir the Body was of a Fox-red; only the belly. and infide of
the
fore-legs Was Ifibe/Zi, the TIhroat and bottom of the lower Jaw was white.
Tlhre were black fpots all over, long ones upon the Back, and round ones
on Ci e B&'iy and Feet, at the extremity of which the fpots were very
finall, and thickly feminated; on the Ears there were fbme very black flreaks
which croffcd them ; and in fiort, they wholly ref&mbled thofe of a Cat.
Tlhe
Hairs of the Beard were Ihorter than thofe in Cats proportionably to the
Bo-
dy; and there was none on the Eye-brows and Cheeks, where Cats have
theim.
  In opening the Belly there was found an extraordinary quantity of E
for all the intervals of the Mufcles of the lower Venter were filled therewvitiv;
-and under the Peritoneum there was a piece which was bigger..than ones Fi+
which inclofed the Vena m'obilicAlis. The two Skins or Coats of the Epiploon
which were likewife furnifhed therewith, did joyntly defcend as ufually,
and
reached into the Groin; and folding themfelves under the Inteflines, did
cm-
brace and keep themfelves fufpended as in a Sack.      .  -
  The Inteffines were almofi all of an equalbignef, and had two thirds of
an
Inch diameter. The Relum and Colon exceeded the other in bignefs onlyvoneI
third of an Inch. Thef two great Intefines together were twelve Inches
long; the others from the Pylorw to the Cccum about feven foot. The Ce-
cum was an Inch and a half in length, and two thirds of an Inch in its greateft
thicknefs. It terminated in an obtufe point.
  The Stomach, which was very great and large, had in the finuofity, which
is in moft Brutes between the fuperiour and inferiour Orifices, a Membrane
greatly loaden with Fat, which joyned thefe two Orifices together, and.
which conduaed the trunck of the Vena Gajirica to the bottom of the bend-
ing, without touching the Membranes of the Stomach; the Vena Gajtrica
being in this Membrane after the fame manner as the Veffels are in the Mefen-
tery, and calling its branches into the Stomach as the Veffels of the Mefentery
do call them into the Intefines, or as the Vas breve produces them to infert
them at the bottom of the Stomach, and in the Spleen.
  The Pancreas was faftened, and run along the Duodenum and Ileam, and
advanced not far underneath the Stomach.
  The Spleen was four Inches long, and fifteen lines in its greatel breadth.
It was of a dark-red colour, and its Figure very well reprefnted that of
an
Oak leaf, being flit in feveral places.