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year round : cows want the upper fore-teeth : in no part of 

 Europe cows grow so large, yield more milk, or more rea- 

 dily fatten, than in England : make no particular distinction 

 in their herbage, indiscriminately devouring the proper 

 quantity: it gives back more than it takes from the soil: 

 the age of the cow known by the teeth and horns : the num- 

 ber of its teeth : have eight cutting-teeth in the lower jaw : 

 manner of renewing them : the horns more surely determine 

 this animal's age, and how : while this animal lives, the horns 

 lengthen : wants in udder what it has in neck : the larger 

 the dewlap, the smaller the quantity of its milk : the kind to 

 be found in every part of the world: large in proportion to 

 the richness of the pasture: Africa remarkable for the largest 

 and smallest cattle of this kind; as also India, Poland, and 

 Switzerland : among the Eluth Tartars, the cow is so large 

 that a tall man only can reach the tip of its shoulder : of all 

 quadrupeds, the cow most liable to alteration from its pas- 

 ture : the breed of the Isle of Man, and most parts of Scot- 

 land, much less than in England : also differently shaped : 

 the breed improved by foreign mixture, adapted to supply 

 the imperfections of our own : such as purely British, far 

 inferior in size to those of the continent, 227. The cow, 

 the urus, and the bison, animals of the same kind : difference 

 in size not so remarkable as those in its form, hair, and 

 horns : many considered as a different kind, and names given 

 them as a distinct species, when in reality all the same : 

 only two varieties of the kind really distinct, the cow and 

 the buffalo : they bear an antipathy to each other : scarcely 

 a part of the world where the cow kind is not found : varie- 

 ty of the horns : those in Iceland are without horns : the 

 Barbary cow, or zebu: of all animals, the cow most exten- 

 sively propagated : an inhabitant of the frozen fields of 

 Iceland, and the burning deserts of Libya : other animals 

 preserve their nature or their form with inflexible perseve- 

 rance : the cows suit themselves to the appetites and con- 

 veniencies of mankind : no animal has a greater variety of 

 kinds, none more humble and pliant : the cow and bison 

 breed among each other : the cow does not breed with the 

 buffalo : no animals more distinct, or have stronger antipa- 

 thies to each other : the cow goes nine months with young : 

 the grunting, or Siberian cow, and the little African, or 

 zebu, are different races of the bison : animals of the cow 

 kind, by naturalists extended to eight or ten sorts, reduced 

 to two : an animal of the cow kind, by no naturalist de- 

 scribed : the description of it, 235. The Greeks compared 

 the eyes of a beautiful women to those of a cow, 282. It 

 eats two hundred and seventy-six plants, and rejects two 

 hundred and eighteen, 368. 

 Cow bezoar, a factitious sort, ii- 286. 



