ANIMALS OF THE 



and its hide more lustrous and soft. There are 

 many of them brought up tame in Carolina ; how- 

 ever, their wild dispositions still seem to continue, 

 for they break through all fences to get into the 

 corn-fields, and lead the whole tame herd after 

 them, wherever they penetrate. They breed also 

 with the tame kinds originally brought over from 

 Europe, and thus produce a race peculiar to that 

 country. 



From all this it appears,* that naturalists have 

 given various names to animals in reality the same, 

 and only differing in some few accidental circum- 

 stances. The wild cow and the tame, the animal 

 belonging to Europe, and that of Asia, Africa, 

 and America, the bonassus and the urus, the bison 

 and the zebu, are all one and the same, propagate 

 among each other, and, in the course of a few 

 generations, the hump wears away, and scarcely 

 any vestiges of savage fierceness are found to re- 

 main. Of all animals, therefore, except man 

 alone, the cow seems most extensively propa- 

 gated. Its nature seems equally capable of the 

 rigours of heat and cold. It is an inhabitant as 

 well of the frozen fields of Iceland, as the burn- 

 ing deserts of Libya. It seems an ancient inmate 

 in every climate, domestic and tame in those 

 countries which have been civilized, savage and 

 wild in the countries which are less peopled, but 

 capable of being made useful in all : able to de- 

 fend itself in a state of nature against the most 

 powerful enemy of the forest ; and only subordi- 



* Button, vol, xxiii. p. 13(X 



