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as low a latituJe as on the eastern side. De Laet says, on 

 the aiitliority of Ilerrera, that they grazed as far south as 

 the banks of the river Yaquimi.* In the same chapter this 

 author states, that Martin Perez had, in 1591, estimated the 

 province of Cinaloa, in which this riv^er runs, to be three 

 hundred leagues from the city of Mexico. This river is 

 supposed to be the same, which, on Mr. Tanner's map of 

 North America, (Philadelphia, 1822,) is named Hiaqui, 

 and situated between the 27th and 28th degrees of north 

 latitude. Perhaps, however, it may be the Rio Gila which 

 empties itself in latitude 32°. Although we may not be 

 able to determine with precision the southern limit of the 

 roamings of the buffalo, west of the mountains, the fact of 

 their existence there in great abundance, is amply settled 

 by the testimony of De Laet on the authority of Gomara, 

 L. 6, C. 17, and of Purchas, p. 778, Its limits to the north 

 are not easier to determine. In Halduyt's collection we 

 have an extract of a letter from Mr. Anthonie Parkhurst, 

 in 1578, in which he uses these words; in the island of 

 Newfoundland there " are mightie beastes, like to camels 

 in greatnesse, and their feete cloven. I did see them farre 

 off, not able to discerne them perfectly, but their steps 

 shewed that their feete were cloven and bigger than the 

 feete of Camels. I suppose them to be a kind of Buffes 

 which I read to bee in the countreys adjacent and very 

 many in the firme land."t In the same collection, p. 689, 

 wc find in the account of Sir Humfrey Gilbert's voyages, 

 which commenced in 1583, that there are said to be in 

 Newfoundland, " buttolfes, or a beast it seemeth by the tract 



• " Jiixta Yaquimi fluminis ripas, tauri vaccceque et procgrandes 

 rvi pascuntur." — Ut supra. Lib. 6, Cap. 6. 



J The principall navigations, voyages, and discoveries of the Englisli 

 lion, &c. by Richard Hakluyt. London, 1539. p. 676. 



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