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rior to that of the other tribes as food, and their 

 milk is more abundant and nutritious. Their skins 

 form the best kinds of leather ; their horns, hoofs, 

 and hair or wool, are applied to many purposes in 

 the arts ; and they are to man the most important, 

 in an economical point of view, of all the tribes of 

 the Mammalia. 



The families into which this order may be di- 

 vided are those composed of the Camels, which are 

 destitute of horns, and are furnished with incisors 

 in the upper jaw ; the Giraffes, which have horns 

 permanently covered with skin ; the Bulls, Buffa- 

 loes, Sheep, Goats, and Antelopes, which have true 

 horns, moulded upon a bony core ; the Deer, which 

 are furnished with bony horns or antlers, annually 

 renewed ; and the Musk-Deer, which are destitute 

 of horns and upper canine teeth, and furnished with 

 long incisors in the upper jaw. Of these groups 

 there are in Britain representatives of only that 

 composed of the Deer, and of them only two species, 

 the Red Deer and the Roe. 



