i88 THE BUFFALO, &c. 



the bunch on the fhoulders, the long hair under 

 the muzzle and on the anterior parts of the bo- 

 dy, and the fhort legs and tail : And, upon com- 

 paring what has been faid of them by Hernan- 

 dez *, Fernandez f, and all the other travellers 

 and hiftorians of the New World J, with what 

 has been delivered concerning the European bi- 

 fon by ancient and modern naturalifts ||, we 

 will be convinced that they are not animals of 

 different fpecies. 



Thus the wild and domeftic ox of Europe, 

 Afia, Africa, and America, the bonafus, the au- 

 rochs, the bifon, and the zebu, are animals of 

 the fame fpecies, which, according to the differ- 

 ences of climate, of food, and of treatment, have 

 undergone the various changes above defcribed. 

 The ox is not only the mod ufeful animal, but 

 moft generally diffufed ; for it has been found 

 every where, except in South America §. Its 



conftitution 



* Hernand. hiftMex. p. 587. 



■f Fernand. hift. Nov. Hiip. p. 10. 



I Singularities de la France Antarctique, par Thevet, p. 148. 

 — Memoir fur la Louifiane, par Dumont, p. 75. — Defcrip- 

 tion de la Nouvelle France, par le P. Charlevoix, torn. 3. p. 

 130. — Lettres Edif. 11. recueil, p. 318. et 23. recueil, p. 238. 



Voyage de Robert Lade, torn 2. p. 315. — Dernieres de- 



couvertes dans l'Amerique feptentrionale, par M. de la Salle, 

 p. 104. &c. &c. 



| Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. 8.— Gefner. Hift. quad. p. 128— 

 Aldrov. de quad. bif. p. 253— Rzacinfky, Hiffc Nat. Polon. 

 p. 214. &c. 



§ The bunched ox, or wild bifon, appears to have inha- 

 bited the northern parts of America only, as Virginia, Flo- 



rida> 



