Description - The Visitor; Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...wilt thou leave thy labour to him V Job xxxix. 10. 11. The unicorn of scrip VOL. II. tures, in fact, appears to be one of the species of rhinoceros; at all events it could not have been a two-horned animal. The oryx is a two-horned antelope, and we may observe that it is a physical impossibility for any ruminating animal, (as deer, ox, or antelope, ) to have a single horn projecting from the median line of the forehead, where the frontal bones are united by nature. Our plate, it is true, represents only a single horn; and the design in this is to show that in certain positions, such only will appear to the eye of the spectator: in order, however, to obviate the possibility of any mistake, we insert, overleaf, a sketch of the head of the oryx in a slightly altered position, by which both horns are brought into view. The oryx is a native of the southern portions of Africa, and is in size equal to a large heifer; the horns are straight, pointed, round, and obliquely ringed for two-thirds of their extent, becoming smooth towards the points. The limbs are stout, the trunk heavy, the neck muscular and thick, and the head devoid of elegance and animation; far different, indeed, is the 2o ("Head of Oryx.) The colour of the oryx is dull reddish grey; the hairs along the spine are reversed, and black; the head is white with a black mark on the forehead, and two black bands down the face. Northern Africa produces another closely allied species, the algazel; of a reddish white colour, with a mark of yellowish brown extending before the root of the horns and down the forehead. Whether the ancients distinguished between these two species or not, is perhaps uncertain; some have supposed this to be indeed the true oryx of antiquity, and as it is a native of the norther...
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