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2d, They eat grass as oxen. 



3d, The whole bovine genus are full and compact in the re- 

 gion of the loins, when compared with many other races of ani- 

 mals, whose bodies are there relatively slender. 



4:th, The second character of Behemoth, in the 16th verse, is 

 more obviously seen, at a glance, in the bovine genus than in 

 any other tribe of mammalia. 



5th, The tail of this genus, with the bushy tuft of hair at its 

 extremity, and which the animal tosses continually when teased 

 with insects, or threatening combat, would readily suggest, to a 

 poetical and amplifying imagination, the simile of the bare trunk 

 and branchy top of the cedar. 



6th, The bovine genus, when threatening combat, place 

 themselves in contorted attitudes, wliich inspire fear in those 

 who see them. 



Ith, The bones and skeleton are strong and large, as describ- 

 ed by Job, in his poetical language. 



8th, To an individual living near the valley of the Jordan, 

 who might be unacquainted with the elephant and larger spe- 

 cies of Rhinoceros, one of the large Bovine species, to which I 

 shall afterwards refer, might appear the chief of the works of 

 God, among the land animals ; and it is obviously with them 

 that the comparison is made in the first clause of the 19th verse; 

 for the author says nearly the same thing of the Leviathan 

 (which would raise in his mind a different set of comparisons), 

 that he says here of the Behemoth. In Job xli. 3^, it is said of 

 the Leviathan, " upon earth there is not his like." 



Qth, Of some of the large Bovine species to which I shall af- 

 terwards refer, it might also be said, by one who knew not the 

 arts of killing it, afterwards invented, — " That he who made 

 it,"" could alone make a weapon fit to assail it. 



10th, The bovine genus are inhabitants of the mountains as 

 well as the plains. I am informed by a gentleman, who was 

 lono- in India, that wild buffaloes, a race which we shall after- 

 wards see delight also in fens and rivers, are found in the Ma- 

 dras territory, where only he had been, in places remote from 

 rivers and swamps. 



l\th. Even the tame buflPaloes of India set at defiance, and 

 beat off, and kill, the Bengal tiger, one of the largest predaceous 



