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of Vicunas, Alpacas, and Huanacos, swarm on the 

 grassy plains ; in fact, up to the snow-line. The larger 

 Lamas inhabit a lower region : and the two species 

 of Camels of the Old World, which are the largest, 

 are, in a wild state, peculiar to the warmer half of the 

 Temperate Zone, and from thence spread to the Warm 

 Zone. They are met with, as domestic animals, 

 according to Gmelin, as far as the 56th degree of N.L. 

 The native country of these animals is, according to 

 such circumstances, and on account of the spreading 

 of several species, the region of the Grasses. 



9. The Ox Tribe (Bos) does not extend, in its 

 various species, so far towards the snow-line as that 

 of the Harts and Camels. Most species are found 

 in vast numbers in the middle of the Temperate 

 Zone, and thrive best in grassy marsh-lands. This 

 remark particularly holds good in the common Ox 

 and Buffalo tribes. In Europe, the common Ox 

 tribes are found in Iceland, as domestic animals, 

 beyond the 60th degree of latitude ; but they there 

 decrease, both in size and beauty. Greenland and 

 Kamtchatka are without such animals. In Asia, the 

 Grunting Ox inhabits the warmer half of the Tempe- 

 rate Zone. The Musk-Ox, in North America, ex- 

 tends, of all the species of this Order, farthest towards 

 the snow-line 5 being plentiful in Hudson's Bay, in 



