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more nearly alike, either in their form or their 

 nature : both equally submissive to the yoke, both 

 often living under the same roof, and employed 

 in the same domestic services ; the make and the 

 turn of their bodies so much alike that it requires 

 a close attention to distinguish them j and yet, 

 after all this, no two animals can be more dis- 

 tinct, or seem to have stronger antipathies to each 

 other.* Were there but one of each kind remain- 

 ing, it is probable the race of both would shortly 

 be extinct. However, such is the fixed aversion 

 formed between these creatures, that the cow re- 

 fuses to breed with the buffalo, which it nearly 

 resembles ; while it is known to propagate with 

 the bison, to which it has, in point of form, but a 

 very distant similitude. 



The buffalo is, upon the whole, by no means 

 so beautiful a creature as the cow ; his figure is 

 more clumsy and awkward, his air is wilder, and 

 he carries his head lower, and nearer the ground ; 

 his limbs are less fleshy, and his tail more naked 

 of hair ; his body is shorter and thicker than that 

 of the cow kind, his legs are higher, his head 

 smaller, his horns not so round, black, and com- 

 pressed, with a bunch of curled hair hanging 

 down between them ; his skin is also harder and 

 thicker, more black and less furnished with hair ; 

 his flesh, which is hard and blackish, is not only 

 disagreeable to the taste, but likewise to the smell. 

 The milk of the female is by no means so good as 

 that of the cow ; it is however produced in great 



* Buflbn. 



