id THE BUFFALO, &c. 



tranfportation of thofe animals from climate to 

 climate. The ox, the fheep, the goat, have been 

 carried to every habitable part of the globe. 

 Thefe fpecies have been fubje&ed to the influ- 

 ence of every climate, and have received impref- 

 iions from every foil and every Iky ; fo that it 

 has become extremely difficult, amidit the num- 

 ber of changes they have undergone, to recog- 

 nife thofe which are lead removed from the pro- 

 totype of Nature. 



Having pointed out the general caufes of the 

 varieties among domellic animals, 1 mall now 

 exhibit the particular proofs or what I advanced 

 concerning the oxen and buffalos. 



1. I remarked, That the animal we now knoiv 

 by the name oj buffalo, was unknown to the an- 

 cient Greeks and Romans. This pofition is evi- 

 dent ; for in none cf their authors is there any 

 defcription, or even name, which can be applied 

 to the buffalo. Befldes, we learn from the an- 

 nals of Italy, that the firft buffalo was tfanfport- 

 cd thither about the end of the fixth century *. 



2. The buffalo, noiv domejtic in Europe, is the 

 fame with the wilct or domejtic buffalo of India 



and Africa, Of this no other proof is neceiTary 

 than a comparifon of our defcription of the buf- 

 falo, which was made; from the live animal, 

 with the notices given by travellers of the 

 buffalos in Perfia f, Mogul % , Bengal || , 



Egypt, 



* Ann. 595. Voyage de Mi/Ton, txm. 3. p. 5 4. f Voyage 

 de Tavernier, torn. i. pag. 41. et 298. % Relation de Thc- 



; page II. |j Voyage de 1' Hullier, page 30. 



