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Size. 
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to any I have feen, and which might be very ufeful in manufactures 
if fufficient could be procured. J} give full credit to M. Feremie, who 
fays, that he brought fome of the wool to France, and gat ftockings 
made with it, more beautiful than thofe of filk *. The fkin is thin. 
The length of the whole hide, from nofe to tail, 1s about fix feet 
four inches: of the head alone fourteen inches. The legs could not 
be well meafured, but were little more than a foot long. 
The fituation of thefe animals is very local. They appear firft in 
the tract between Churchill river and that of Sea/s, on the weit fide of 
Hudfon’s Bay. They are very numerous between the latitudes 66 and: 
73 north, which is as far as any tribes of Indians go. They live in 
herds of twenty or thirty. Mr.. Hearn + has feen in the high latitudes. 
feveral herds in one day’s walk. They delight moft in the rocky and: 
barren mountains, and feldom frequent the woody parts of the coun- 
try. They run nimbly, and are very active in climbing the rocks.. 
The flefh taftes very ttrone of Mufk, and the heart is fo ftrongly: 
infected as hardly to be eatable; but the former is very wholefome,, 
having been found to reftore fpeedily to health the fickly crew who. 
made it their food f. 
They are fhot by the Indians for the fake. of the meat and fkins,, 
the laft from its warmth making excellent blankets. They are 
brought down on fledges to the forts annually during wiater, with. 
about three or four thoufand weight of the flefh. Thefe are called 
Churchill Buffaloes, to. diftinguifh them freny the laft fpecies, which: 
are in Hudfon’s Bay called Inland Buffaloes, of which only the: 
tongues are brought as prefents |. 
They are found alfo in the land of the Cris or Cri/tinawx, and the 
Afinibouels : again among the Attimo/piquay, a nation iuppofed to in- 
* Voy. au Nord, iii. 314. 
+ The gentleman who undertook, in 1770, 1771, 1772, the arduous journey to- 
the Icy Sea, from Prince of Wales's Fort, Hudfon’s Bay. Yo him, through Mr. /egg’s 
intereft, Iam indebted for the fkin and this information. 
t Drage’s-voy. ii. 260> || Mr. Grabam’s MS. : 
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