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Title: Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Company Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Oryx. It is often represented on the monuments of Egypt*and as these representations are almost always inprofile, it is generally made to appear as having OPvYZA-OSCr. only one horn, thus probably contrilniting to tliefable of the unicorn; and, indeed, all the olderfigures of the unicorn exhibit a considerable iesem-blance to this kind of antelnpe. The name AnUlopeoryx was given by Pallas to the Genis-boc (q. v.),an antelope certainly much resembling the 0., butfound ouly in Soutli Africa ; and it is now generallybelieved that the true 0. of the ancients is a speciesalso known as the Algazel (Antilope Gazella, orOnjx bezoartica), common in the north of Africa.It is about three feet six inches high, of a stoutfigure; with sheep-like muzzle ; long ears ; hornsof the male from two to three feet long, slender,gradually attenuated, directed backM-anls andgently curved, annulated for about half their length;the female also having horns. ORYZA. See Rice. OSACA, an imperial city of Japan, in

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