f $6 J 
ARTICLE V. _ 
Obfervations on the American Buffalo, and his 
Superiority over the Englifo Ox, in certain Proper- 
ties; alfo, on the principal Mineral Productions al- 
ready difcovered in North-America. 
[By Geo. Turner, Efq; Judge of the Weftern Territory. ] 
Communicated by A. Foruercity, M.D. F.R. S. 
Dear Sir, Philadelphia, May 9, 1793. 
OU have laid me under another, and very par- 
ticular obligation ; you have procured me an 
honour to which, I am fearful, I had no juft claim. 
I efteem it a mark of your polite and friendly at- 
tention, and beg you to accept, in return, my warm- 
eft acknowledgments. Affure, Sir, the Bath and 
Weft of England Society how greatly I am flattered 
by the honours they have done me, in placing my 
name among the members of a body fo truly re- 
fpectable. If at any time, and in any manner, I can 
affift or promote the laudable views of the Society, 
they may depend on the beft of my poor en- 
deavours. 
I have perufed, with much fatisfaction, the Rules 
and Premiums of the Society. You have wifely 
made agriculture the chief object of the inftitution. 
I count it among the nobleft purfuits of man. Hav- 
ing 
