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ing ever myfelf been a friend to agriculture, you 
will readily conceive the intereft I take in its im- 
provement. ; 
Perhaps, at a day not far diftant, America will 
have the fatisfaction of feeing her buffalo intro- 
duced to the attention and convenience of the En- 
glifh, and other European farmers. This animal 
might be made the farmer’s beft friend : he is gre- 
garious, docile, alert, and of furprifing ftrength ; 
his carcafe affords excellent beef; and the horns, 
which are jet black and of a folid confiftence, take 
a polifh of wonderful beauty: they can be con- 
verted into fabrics of ufe and ornament; fuch as 
mugs, tumblers, cutteaux and knife-handles, &c. 
&c. In this way we fometimes apply them; and 
when ornaments of filver, or mother-of-pearl, are 
employed, the contraft with the polifhed black of the 
horn is agreeably ftriking. 
The American buffalo is, if I miftake not, the 
bifon of Buffon. Immenfe herds of this animal 
roam at large, in Interior America. From Green 
River to the Miffiffippi, the fhores of the Ohio are 
lined with them. The hunters are too apt to de- 
{troy them wantonly: a circumftance much to be 
regretted, and not to be prevented. Frequently 
have I {een this fine animal killed; and, excepting 
the tongue and the tallow, left on the ground, a 
prey to the tygers, wolves, and eagles. The bofs 
on the fhoulders of the buffalo is, as well as the 
tongue, 
