THE BUFFALO, &c, 193 



tail, a dark countenance, and a fkin as black as 

 his hair. He differs chiefly from the ox by this 

 black colour of his fkin : It appears under the 

 hair, which is not clofe. His body is thicker and 

 fhorter than that of the ox, his legs longer, his 

 head proportionally fmaller, his horns lefs round, 

 being black and comprefTed ; and he has a tuft 

 of curled hair on his front. His fkin is alio 

 thicker and harder than that of the ox. His 

 flefh is black and hard, and has not only a bad 

 tafte, but a mod diiagreeable odour*. The milk 

 of the female buffalo is not fo good as that of 

 the cow ; but fhe yields it in much greater quan- 

 tity f- In warm countries, mod checfcs are 

 made of the buffalo's milk. The flefh of young 

 buffaloes, though ted with milk, is not good. 

 The fkin is of more value than the reit of 

 Vol. VI. N the 



* In travelling from Rome to Naples, we are fometirr.c:: 

 regaled with crows and buffaloes, and are happy to find them. 

 The flefh of the buffalo is black, hard, and (linking, and none 

 but poor people and the Jews cf Rome are in the habit o" 

 eating it ; Forage de M/J/bn, torn. 3. p. 54. 



f In entering Perfia, by the way of Armenia, the firfl plai e 

 worthy of notice is called the Three Churches, at the diftance 

 of three leagues from Erivan. In this country, there are vail 

 numbers of buffaloes, which ferve the inhabitants for plough- 

 ing their lands. The females yield a great quantity of milk, 

 of which butter and cheefe are made. Some females give 

 daily twenty-two pints of milk; Voyage de Tavernier, /.':■. i. 

 torn, i. p. 41. — The female buffaloes go with young twelve 

 months, and often give twenty-two pints of rniJk a-day, of 

 which io great quantities of butter are made, that, in iome of 

 the villages on the Tigris, we faw from twenty to twenty-five 

 barks loaded with butter, to be fold along both fideg of tj 

 ffcrfic Gulf j Id. ib. 



