176 THE BUFFALO, &c: 



muck Tartary *, in Upper Ethiopia f, and, in 

 Abyflinia J, the oxen are of a prodigious fize. 

 Hence this difference depends more on the quan- 

 tity of food, than on the temperature of the 

 climate. In the northern and temperate, as well 

 as in the warm regions, we find, at very incon- 

 fiderable difiances, large or fmall oxen, according 

 to the quantity and quality of the pafture they 

 have to feed upon. 



The race of aurochs, or of the ox without a 

 bunch, occupies the frozen and temperate zones, 

 and is not much diffufed over the fouthern re- 

 gions. The race of the bifon, or bunched ox, 

 on the contrary, occupies all the warm climates. 

 In the whole continent of India ||, in the eaftern 



and 



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* The oxen, in the provinces occupied by the Calmuck 

 Tartars, are ftill larger than thofe of the Ukraine, and taller 

 than in any other part of the world ; Re/at. de la Grande Tar- 

 tar ie, p. 228. 



f In Upper ./Ethiopia, the cows are as large as camels, and 

 without horns ; U Afrique de Marmot torn. 3. p. 157. 



\ The riches of the Abyflinians confill chiefly in cows. . . 

 The horns of the oxen are fo large, that they hold twenty 

 pints. They are ufed by the Abyfilnians for pitchers and 

 bottles ; Voyage de Abyfjinie du P. Lobo, torn. I. p. 57. 



The oxen which draw coaches in Surat are white, of a 

 •'ood fize, and have two bunches like thofe of certain camels. 

 They run and gallop like horfes, and are garnifhed with 

 iplendid houfing, and a number of fmall bells fixed to then' 

 necks. When the animals are in motion, the bells are heard 

 at a confiderable diftance, and their noife in the ftreets is 

 very agreeable. Thefe coaches are ufed not only in the cities 

 ' of India, but in travelling through the country; Voyage de 

 Pletrs delia Valie, tern. 6. p. 273. — The carriages of the Mogul, 



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