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'long hair and fine wool are found mostly in the 

 warmer but alpine districts of Asia. Of the Bo- 

 vidae or Oxen, so important for food and labour, two 

 are found in America, another in Africa; but the 

 Asiatic continent appears to be their stronghold, and 

 possesses several species, which have in their turn 

 been subjected to the will and for the use of man. 



We shall now review the families separately, and 

 mter more at large into the peculiarities of form 

 .and structure which has been observed in each.: 

 and, first, 



