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1772, The head ofan old bull is of a great fize and. 
ieee weight indeed: fome which I have feen were fo — 
large, that I could not without difficulty lift them 
from the ground*; but the heads of the cows are. 
much fmaller. Their tails are, in general, about. 
afoot long, though fome appear to be exclufive _ 
of the long brufh of hair at the end, longer. 
The-hair on the tails of the bulls is generally of a | 
fine glofly black; but the brufh at the end of the 
cows’ tails is always of a rufty brown, probably 
owing to being flained with their urine. 
The hair of the body is foft and curled, fome- 
what approaching to wool; it is generally of a 
fandy brown, and of an equal length and thick. 
nefs all over the body: but on the head and | 
neck it is much longer than it is on any. other 
part. we ; 
The Indians, after reducing all the parts of the 
fkin to an equal thicknefs by fcraping, drefs them | 
in the hair for clothing; when they are light, | 
foft, warm, and durable. They alfo drefs fome | 
of thofe fkins into leather without the hair, of | 
; which they make tents and fhoes; but the grain | 
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* It is remarked by Mr. Cate(by, in his defcription of this animal, that | 
no man can lift one of their heads. Thofe I faw inthe Athapufcow coun= 
try are fuch as I have defcribed; and I am affured by the Company’s fer= 
vants, as well as the Indians who live near Hudfon’s Houfe, that the buf- 
falos there are much fimaller; fo that the fpecies Mr. Catefby faw, of | 
wrote of, muft have been much larger, or have had very large heads; for 
it is well known that a man of any tolerable ftrength can lift two and 
ahalf, or three hundred pounds weight. i think that the heads of his | 
buffalos are too heavy for the bodies, as the bodies of thofe I faw in the 
Athapufcow country appear to have been of equal weight with his, 
