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A mild, gentle, and extremely useful race, all the indivi- 

 duals of which contribute to the comforts and necessities of 

 Man, affording him a constant supply of food and clothing ; 

 they are less active than the preceding, and prefer open 

 plains or gently sloping hills : and most of the species being 

 in a state of domestication, are subject to considerable varie- 

 ties both in form and colour. 



8. Bos. Ox. Horns hollow, curving outwards and for- 

 wards, semicircular, smooth, annulated • lower front 

 teeth eight ; tusks wanting. 



This " honest, harmless, useful" tribe of animals, consti- 

 tute the wealth of many countries of which they are natives, 

 being used for burden or draft, as occasion requires, their 

 Milk supplying Butter and Cheese, their flesh food, their 

 skins leather for various purposes, their horns and hoofs are 

 applicable to numerous uses, their fat supplies tallow ; and 

 in fact there is no part of the whole beast but what Man 

 has turnpd to advantage. In a wild state they are of a 

 fierce and violent disposition, associating in herds, fre- 

 quenting marshy grounds in the vicinity of low woods ; 

 they possess an exquisite sense of smell ; their food is grass 

 and herbage ; the various species when domesticated, ars 

 subject to considerable varieties in form and colour. 



Oeder VI. BELLULJE. 



Front teeth obtuse, truncate ; feet hoofed. This order 

 consists of four genera, the two first of which are her- 



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