35^ TRAVELS through 



The wild ox has a bunch or hump on its 

 back * like a camel. It has long hair on the 

 head like a goat, and wool on its body like 

 fheep, which the Indian women fpin into 

 threads. 



On going towards the head of the river Mif- 

 fouris^ you find all forts of wild beafts. The 

 wild goats and their young ones are very com- 

 mon at certain feafons f . Thefe animals are 

 very lively and pretty ; the females have double 

 furrows or ringlets to their horns, and are not fo 

 big as ours : the French that eat of them have 

 alTured me, that the young venifon was as good 



as 



* The hump is fituated on the flioulders. The animal has 

 been defcribed by Linnaus under the name o^ Bos hifony and 

 drawn by Catcjby in his Nat. Hifi. of Carolinay app. t. 20. 

 and in Mr. Pennant's Synopjts of ^adrupeds, p. 8. t. II. f. 2. F. 



f This animal feems to be of the antelope kind, perhaps 

 the Tcmamafama oi Hernandez , an animal which hitherto has 

 not been noticed by our zoologies. It feems not to be an 

 animal belonging to the goat kind, on account of the double 

 ringlets or cornichons mentioned by the author* This would 

 be perhaps a new animal ; and however it be, it will dcferve 

 the attention of our natural hiflorians. And as the Englifli 

 dominions now extend to the river MiiTifippI, it would cer- 

 tainly be worth while to defcribc the animals upon that river, 

 and thofe that fall into it. F. 



