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tongue, extremely rich and delicious,—fuperior to 
the beft Englifh beef. It is ufual to cure the 
tongues, and tranfport them to New-Orleans ; 
where they are fure to meet with a good market. 
There is a fingular, an affecting trait in the cha- 
rater of the buffalo, when a calf ; and my feelings. 
have feverely felt it. Whenever a cow buffalo falls 
before the murdering lead of the hunters, and hap- 
pens to have a calf, the helplefs young one, far from 
attempting an efcape, ftays by its fallen dam, with 
figns expreffive of {trong and active natural affec- 
tion. The dam thus fecured, the hunter makes no 
attempt on the calf, (knowing it to be unneceflary) 
but proceeds to cut up the carcafe: then laying it on 
his horfe, he returns towards home, followed by 
the poor calf, thus inftinctively attending the re- 
mains of its dam. Ihave feen a fingle hunter ride 
into the town of Cincinnati, between the Miames, 
followed in this manner, and at the fame time by 
three calves, who had loft their dams by this cruel 
hunter. 
Since I have expreffed a with to fee the buffalo 
domefticated on the Engliih farms, I will now men- 
tion a fact concerning it, within my own knowledge. 
A farmer, on the Great Kenhawa, broke a young 
buffalo to the plough ; having yoked it with a fteer 
taken from his tame cattle. The buflalo performed 
to admiration. Enquiring of the man, whether he 
had any fault to find with the buflalo’s performance, 
he 
