THE GREAT BULL OF CiESAR 



in different parts of England, for instance those 

 on Lord Tanqueray's and the Duke of Hamil- 

 ton's estates, are supposed by some persons to be 

 the remains of this race of wild oxen. But 

 this is probably a mistake. They are really 



^H Fig. 9. — Skull of the great extinct Bull, the Bo« primigeniuSt 

 ^^K or the Urus, or Aurochs. The measurement from one hom- 



^^B tip to the other taken round the curves, was in some 



^^K cases eight feet. The Urus stood in rare instances as 



^^m much as seven feet at the shoulder ; a fair-sized Elephant 



^^H stands nine feet. 



the remains of cattle introduced by the Romans, 

 and have run wild. They are not the Urus of 

 Julius Caesar, which was a good deal bigger 

 than the largest domesticated cattle, even bigger 

 than the white oxen of Umbria. 



This (Fig. 10) is another animal which has 



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