Series 02: Journal of a tour in Holland, 12 February - 22 March 1773 - No. 0034

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Leyden

23.  This morn Mr. Allemand carried us to see his Collection of Natural history which we found by no means so compleat as that of the prince of Orange yet good & set off to more advantage than any we have in England the most remarkable things we saw were,

Camelopardalis - a stuffed skin of a small animal which when taken was sucking its dam the Colour was a very light fawn or cream colour divided by white lines into angular figures much resembling the tessera of Ludus Helmontii it had a mane from the top of its head to its shoulders of stiffish hairs a little darker than the rest of the animal his ears were a little rounded eyelashes very thickset his horns which were about 4 inches long were coverd with hair & had at their tips little pencils of brownish colour one had been cut through & plainly shewd that they were solid like those of the deer kind it had no dentes incisores in the upper jaw in the under one seven.  I suppose one might have been lost or not yet grown out its tail was small & round