The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.

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Title: The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.
Author: Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
Publication: London :: Printed by William Iaggard,; 1607.
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[ 10] Of the Getulian Squirrell, described and figured by Doctor Cay.

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THis Getulian or Barbarian Squirrell, is of mixt colour, as [ 30] it were betwixt black and red, and from the shoulders all along to the taile by the sides, there are white and russet strakes or lines, which in a decent and and seemely order stand in ranks or orders; and there be some of these Squir∣rels which haue such lines of white and blacke, with cor∣respondent lines in the taile, yet they cannot be seene ex∣cept the taile bee stretched out at length, by reason there is not much haire vpon it. The belly seemeth to be like a blew colour vpon a white ground. It is a little lesse then the vulgar Squirrel, and hath not any eares extant or stan∣ding [ 40] vp as that, but close pressed to the skin round, and arysing a little in length by the vp∣per face of the skinne. The head is like the head of a Frog, and in other things it is very like the vulgar Squirrell, for both the outward shape, the manner, and behauiour, the meat and means of life agree in both, and she also couereth her body like other Squirrels. This picture and description was taken by him from one of them aliue, which a Marchant of London brought out of Barbary.

They are very pleasaunt and tame, and it is very likely that it is a kind of Egyptian or Affrican mouse, whereof there are three sorts described by Herodotus, the first called Bi∣pedes, the second Zegeries, and the third Echines, of which we haue already spoken in the story of diuers kinds of mice, and therefore I will heere end the discourse of this beast.

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