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of fix tboiifand draft, and twenty thoufand carriage bullocks, 

 for the confuraption of the enfuing campaign. 



It is impoffible not to take notice of Mr. Kcr's Bos Arnee^ de- Bos Arnee. 

 fcribed in his 2d vol. of the Animal Kingdom, p. 747. I have 

 feen only the horns, which were in pofTeffion of Sir Joseph 

 Banks. They were incurvated into the exa6l form of a 

 crefcent, and flood upright on the animal's head. 1 forget their 

 length, but think it was between two or three feet; but I never 

 fhall forget that of the whole animal, which was met in a wood 

 in the country above Bengal^ by a Briti/b officer, who informs 

 us, that from the tip of the horns to the ground, it muft have 

 been fourteen feet, ^ale portentiim neque militariSy 8cc. &c. 

 It partook of the form of the horfc, bull, and deer, and was 

 very bold and daring. The figure of the horns is faithfully 

 given oppofite p. 747, and we are prefented with that of the 

 whole animal, in vol. i. p. 295. 



Buffaloes, N" 9, are ufed for the dairy. Mr. Danielle in his Buffaioes. 

 Vllth plate, gives a figure of a loaden ox of a great fize, very 

 frequent in the neighborhood of Delhi. It has a great bunch 

 on the flioulders, otherwife I fliould have fuppofed it to have 

 been the Buffalo, to which are attributed the vafl horns I have 

 feen in the Briti/Jj Muj'eu}7i, which are fix feet fix inches long, 

 and will hold in the hollow five quarts of liquid *. They are 

 ftrait almoft to the ends, where they bend flightly. Such is 

 the exact form of thofe in Mr. DanieWs animal ; they point 

 nearly forward, diverging as they pafs the nofe. I fufpecl that 

 tbofe in the ByitiJJj Mufeum belong to the ox fpecies. 



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