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Africa, where It was called zebu ; that it was do- 

 meftic, and was ufed for riding. It is, indeed, a 

 very mild and even a careffiag animal. Its fi- 

 gure, though thick and fquat, is agreeable. It 

 has, however, lb perfect a refemblance to the ox, 

 that I can give no better idea of it, than by re- 

 marking, that, if a handfome bull were viewed 

 through a glafs which diminiihed objects one 

 half, this contracted figure would be that of the 

 zebu. 



The defcription I made of this animal, in 

 the year 1752, is inferted below in the note*. 



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* This fmall ox has a perfect refemblance to that of Belon. 

 Its crupper is round, and plumper than that of the common 

 ox. It is fo gentle and familiar, that it licks the hand like a 

 dog, and careffes every perfon who approaches. It is a very 

 beautiful animal ; and its' intelligence fcems to be equal to its 

 docility. We were informed by its conductor, that it was 

 brought from Africa, and that its age was twenty.-one 

 months. Its colour was white, mixed with yellow and a little 

 red. All the legs were white. The hair on the fpine of the 

 back, for about a foot wide, is black, and the tail of the fame 

 colour. In the middle of this black band, there is on the 

 crupper a fmall white ftfeak, the hairs of which Rand erect 

 like briftles. It had no mane, and there was very little 

 hair on the tuft. The hair of the body is very fmooth 

 and ihort. It was five feet feveh inches in length, from the 

 end of the muzzle to the origin of the tail, five feet one inch 

 in circumference behind the fore legs, five feet fix inches at' 

 the middle of the body, and five feet one inch above the' 

 hind legs. The circumference of the head, taken before the 

 horns, Was two feet ten inches, and that of the muzzle, taken 

 behind the noltrils, was one foot three inches. The fiflure 

 of the mouth, when fhut, was eleven inches. T he nofhils' 

 were two inches long by one broad j and, from the end o£ the 



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