BISON. 



I 'the body. It grows, accord law- 



, to a \ast M/(, and i, I. Mind l< ucigll 



.sixteen hundrul, and c\cn t\u. thousand 

 hundred pounds ; and the itr ;.n.t 



lift one of the skins from ti ..ml. 



It is difficult, as Mi. Pennant ohscr 

 in uliat manner thae animals im from thr 



old to tin- new \\oiid : hut it scents m<-t pn.hahli: 

 tliat it \\as from the north ol'.Xsia, \\liicli, in 



cient times, iniu'lit ha\r lu-cn itocked with them 



to its nlo^t c\ti-cine parts, notu itlistaiu!;. 



arc i 'inct in tho- that |> 



the two continents might lia\c hecn nniied hc- 



11 '/(/////// ;/'/N.V and tlic opposite hradlain 

 America; and the many islands .tf that promon- 

 tory, M'ith the Alcn' 



what nore distant, may \\. -\\\>- 



il to he fragments of land which the 



twi continents, and formed their iisMii.ir 

 the mighty con\nlsion which divided .\ 

 Am. 



In America the lii-on occurs in the icgion> 

 hundred miles ucst ot' IIiuNon's l!.i\. uhuh is 

 their most northern roidti' 



are met M'ith in great droves. t /><>/i, m 



::j. a little north )!' C'ai ! aUo in tin- 



province ot' I/ ' nul the 



tlu south 



of till sc |>art>. Tl: .nhahit I . to tlit 



of tlu- lakes , and in gn niulani. 



HUt CaroL p. 1 16. t PM* Arc!. ZooL 



