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Odiober the 2 2d. Upon trial it has been 

 found that the following animals and birds* 

 which are wild in the woods oi North Ame^ 

 rica, can be made nearly as tradtable as 

 domeilic animals. 



The wildCoi^^'j zn^Oxen, of which feveral 

 people of diftinftion have got young calves 

 from thefe wild cows, which are to be met 

 with in Carolina, and other provinces to the 

 fouth of Penjyhania, and brought them up 

 among the tame cattle > when grown up, 

 they were perfed:ly tame, but at the fame 

 time very unruly, fo that there was no en- 

 clofureftrong enough to refift them, if they 

 had a mind to break through it ; for as they 

 pofTefs a great ftrength in their neck, it was 

 eafy for them to overthrow the pales with 

 their horns, and to get into the corn -fields 5 

 and as foon as they had made a road, all 

 the tame cattle followed them ; they like- 

 wife copulated with the latter, and by that 

 means generated as it were a new breed. 

 This American fpecies of oxen is Linnceus% 

 Bos Bifon, &. 



American Deer, can likewife be 

 tamed; and I have feen them tame myfelf 

 in different places. A farmer in New Jerfey 

 had one in his pofTeffion, which he had 

 caught when it was very young -, and at 

 prefent it was fo tame, that in the day time it 



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