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the following animals and birds, which are wild 

 in the woods of North America, can be made 

 nearly as tractable as domeflic animals. 



THE wild Cows and Oxen, of which feveral 

 people of diflindion have got young calves from 

 thefe wild cows, which are to be met with in 

 Carolina, and other provinces to the fouth of 

 Penfyfoania, and brought them up among the 

 tame cattle; when grown up, they were per- 

 fectly tame, but, at the fame time, very unruly, 

 fo that there was no enclofure ftrong enough to 

 refift them* if they had a mind to break through 

 it; for as they poffefs a great ftrength in their 

 neck, it was eafy for them to overthrow the pales 

 with their horns, and to get into the corn-fields ; 

 and as foon as they had made a road, all the 

 tame cattle followed them ; they likewife copu- 

 lated with the latter, and by that means gene- 

 rated as it were a new breed. This American 

 fpecies of oxen is Linnceufs Bos Bifon, f>. 



AMERICAN Deer can likewife be tamed; 

 and I have feen them tame myfelf in different 

 places. A farmer in New Jerfty had one in his 

 poffefHon, which he had caught when it was 

 very young ; and at prefent it was fo tame, that 

 in the day-time it run into the wood for its food, 

 and towards night it returned home, and fre- 

 quently brought a wild deer out of the wood, 

 giving its mailer an opportunity to {hoot it. Se- 

 veral people have therefore tamed young deer, 

 and make ufe of them for hunting wild deer, or 

 for decoying them home, eipecially in the time 

 $ their rutting. 



BEAVERS have been fo tanned, that they have 



gone 



