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their companions. They will travel with a soldier on their 

 back fifteen or sixteen hours a-day, at the rate of six miles 

 an hour. Their action is particularly fine, nothing like that 

 of the English cattle, with the sideway circular action of 

 their hind-legs ; the Nagpore cattle bring their hind-legs 

 under them in as straight a line as the Horse. They are 

 very active, and can clear a five-barred gate with the greatest 

 ease. Mr Perkins has a calf which has leaped over an iron 

 fence higher than any five-barred gate ; and the bull fre- 

 quently jumps over the same fence in order to get at the 

 water, and, when he has drunk his fill, leaps back again. 

 The bull was in high condition when exhibited. He is em- 

 ployed in a light cart in various jobs about the farm. Some- 

 times he goes fore-horse in the waggon-team to deliver corn ; 

 he also drags the bush-harrow, and draws the light roller 

 over the ploughed land. He is very docile and tractable 

 when one man drives him and attends upon him, but he has 

 now and then shewn symptoms of dislike to others. He is 

 fed entirely on hay, except that, when he works, a little bran 

 is given to him, and in the turnip season, he is treated occa- 

 sionally with a few slices of Swedes, of which he is very fond. 

 He was at first very troublesome to shoe, and it was neces- 

 sary to erect a break in order to confine him. He was un- 

 willing to go into it for some time, but now walks in it very 

 contentedly. He is very fond of being noticed ; and often, 

 when he is lying down, if any one to whom he is accustomed 

 goes and sits down upon him and strokes him over the face, 

 he will turn round and put his head on their lap, and lie there 

 contentedly as long as they please. The cow is at grass with 

 the milch cows, and comes up with them morning and even- 

 ing, when they are driven to be milked." 



But the Ox extends to another division of the globe, 

 where we may expect him to exhibit modifications dependent 

 on the peculiar conditions under which he is placed, and 

 which exert so great an influence on the development of 

 animal forms. But a vast part of the African continent is 



