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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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usively. They eat little, and seldom drink, so that they are ENCYCLOPEDIA. 95 LLAMA. GIRAFFE, easily maintained. They have cloven feet, like sheep, and are used atthe mines to carry ore to the mills ; and, as soon as loaded, they set or!without any guide, to the place where they are usually unloaded. They have a sort of spur above the foot, which renders them sure-footed among- the rocks, as it serves as a sort of hook to hold by. Theirhair, or rather wool, is long, white, gray, and russet, in spots. Theseanimals are of great use and profit to their masters; for their wool isvery good and fine, particularly of that species named pacas, whichhave very long fleeces :—and they are of little expense for nourishment,for a handful of maize suffices them, and they can go a long time with-out water. Their flesh is as good as that of the fat sheep in Castile.There are now public shambles for the sale of their flesh, in all parts ofPeru, where the animal is found. THE GIRAFFE, OR CAMELEOPARD.
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96 FAMILY GIRAFFE OR CAMELEOPARD. The GIRAFFE, or Cameleopard. There are at present three Gi-raffes in Europe—one in the Kings Menagerie, in Windsor GreatPark,—one at the Jardine des Plantes, at Paris,—the third at Venice,which arrived late in 1828 : a fourth was sent to Constantinople, butdied there. These animals were all presents fom the Pasha of Egypt.Till the year 1827, when a giraffe arrived in England, and another inFrance, the animal had not been seen in Europe since the end of thefifteenth century, when the Soldan of Egypt sent one to Lorenzo diMedici. The absence of the giraffe from Europe, for three centuriesand a half, naturally induced a belief, that the descriptions of this ani-mal were in a great part fabulous—that a creature of such extraordina-ry height and apparent disproportions was not to be found amongst theactual works of nature. This animal is said to be the tallest in the world, the top of its headbeing about seventeen feet from the ground, and its body

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