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have overthrown this creed, and men of science now 
substitute for it another, viz: that the cow isa native 
of Asia, and has thence been translated to other parts 
of the globe. | Be this fact as it may, her uses are so 
many, so Various and so important, that we cannot 
hesitate to transfer from the horse, the distinction be- 
stowed upon him, by an eloquent writer of the last 
century, and to pronounce her, “ the noblest conquest 
made by man.”(1) During two thirds’ of her life, 
(which may be protracted to twelve years) she is an- 
nually producing her species, and during the same 
period, yielding an abundant supply of that beverage, 
so universally known and so generally acceptable, 
so happily adapted from its compound nature (part 
animal and part vegetable) to all ages and conditions 
of man; to the young and to the old; to the poor 
and to the rich; to the sick and to the sound, and 
which, in its concrete forms of butter and cheese, 
has, in all civilized countries, become an article of 
first necessity. Nor is her value diminished by 
death; for having been fatted and prepared for mar- 
ket, her flesh forms our most savoury and substantial 
food ; her tallow in the form.of candles, supplies the 
absence of natural light ; her skin, wrought into leath- 
er, furnishes shoes and other articles, rendered ne- 
cessary by habit or custom; ‘her horns, are convert- 
ed into combs and lanterns ; ber blood, is essential to 
the refinement of our sugars; chemistry draws from 
her hoofs important uses; and her hair is made to 
pad our collars and saddles, and, by entering into the 
construction of our buildings, adds to their beauty, 
(1) Buffon’s Nat. Hist. Vol. 22. 
