1792 . ~—- account of the arnee. 105 
This description of the horn is taken from a pair 
of real‘horns of the animal, with the bones of the 
head, now in the pofsefsion of Mr James Haig, mer- 
chant in Leith, that were sent home to him)this year 
by his brother Mr William Haig, of the Hawkefbury 
East Indiaman’; who, for his singular attention te 
the objects of natural history, deserves a high de- 
gree of honour from his countrymen. The animal 
which furnifhed these horns was found in a situation 
near which no other animal of this sort had ever be- 
fore been discovered. It was killed by the fhip’s com- 
pany in the river Ganges, about fifty miles below 
Calcutta, at the place where the fhips usually lie. 
From whence it had come no conjecture can be 
made ; but it can hardly be supposed it could have 
been carried by the current from above Plafsy to 
this place, without going afhore; but wherever it 
came from, the creature was alive at the time they. 
perceived it, and was killed and eat by the thip’s coms _ 
pany, and deemed by them very good meat. 
The arnee is by far the largest animal of the ox 
tribe yet known. In its native country it is said to 
measure usually twelve, sometimes fourteen, feet 
from the ground to the highest part of the back. 
The one here represented, considering the man on 
its back as a scale, would not seem to have been 
quite so tall. The animal killed by the Hawkefbu- 
ry’s company was only a young one; the exact age 
cannot be now ascertained, as the teeth are all gone. 
When cut up, it weighed 360 pounds the quarter, 
which is 1440 lb. the carcase. If we suppose this | 
animal to have been of an ordinary size, from two 
