Natural History of the Ostrich, with a beautifully engraved Figure of that Bird.

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THE ostrich is a bird very anciently known, mention being made of it in the most ancient of books; it must also have been very well known, as furnishing the sacred Writers with several comparisons, taken from its manners and habits; and anciently likewise its flesh was, in all probability, a common meat, at least among the people, the Legislator of the Jews having prohibited them its use as unclean food.