146 MINUTES MAR. 



84. In theory, it feems difficult for an animal, dc- 



BULLOCKS flitute of paws, and with teeth only in one jaw. 

 'BREAKING . . . . , 



TURNEPS. to get to pieces a turnep, which he cannot con- 

 tain in his mouth ; more efpecially when it is 

 thrown loofe upon hard ground : one is led to 

 imagine, that it would roll or flide away from 

 him, as he attempted to bite it; but no fuch 

 thing happens. I faw feveral turneps begun 

 and fmifhed without being moved an inch from 

 the place they fell in from the cart. Had the 

 bullocks been furnimed with paws, or even 

 hands, to hold them with, they could not have 

 clone it more dexteroufly. 



Having fmelled out a turnep they like, they 

 prefs it hard againft the ground with the gums 

 of the upper jaw, applied upon the top of the 

 turnep, toward the fide which lies fartheft from 

 them, fleadying it with the upper lip : then 

 inferting their teeth on the oppofitc -fide and 

 biting fomewhat upward, they take off a fmall 

 piece, proportioned, in fome meafure, to the 

 fize of the turnep. Having tailed the firft 

 bite, and fmelt at the broken part, they take 

 another flice ; perhaps not thicker or larger 

 than a crown-piece : and thus continue to take 

 off, or rather fcoop out, flice after flice until 

 nothing is left but the tail of the turnep,. and 



a fliell 



