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In this manner the number of animals of the 

 cow kind, which naturalists have extended to 

 eight or ten sorts, are reduced to two; and as 

 the utmost deference is paid to the opinion of 

 M. Buffon in this particular, I have taken him 

 for my guide. Nevertheless, there is an animal 

 of the cow kind, which neither he, nor any other 

 naturalist that I know of, has hitherto described, 

 yet which makes a very distinct class, and may 

 be added as a third species. 



This animal was shown some years ago in Lon- 

 don, and seemed to unite many of the character- 

 istics of the cow and the hog ; having the head, 

 the horns, and the tail of the former, with the 

 bristles, the colour, and the grunting of the lat- 

 ter. It was about the size of an ass, but broader 

 and thicker ; the colour resembling that of a hog, 

 and the hair bristly, as in that animal. The hair 

 upon the body was thin, as in the hog ; and a 

 row of bristles ran along the spine, rather shorter 

 and softer than in the hog kind. The head was 

 rather larger than that of a cow ; the teeth were 

 entirely resembling those of that animal, and the 

 tongue was rough in like manner. It fed upon 

 hay; and, consequently, its internal conforma- 

 tion must have resembled that of the cow kind 

 more than the hog, whose food is always chosen 

 of a kind more succulent. The eyes were placed 

 in the head as with the cow, and were pretty 

 nearly of the same colour ; the horns were black 

 and flattish, but bent rather backwards to the 

 neck, as in the goat kind ; the neck was short 

 and thick, and the back rather rising in the 



