U R U 



USA 



tTnus, in Natural H't/lory, the name of a fpecies of wild are feen, intermixed with thofe of flags and deer ; feedinp 

 bull, of a very remarkable fizo and ftrength. Cae-far, in chiefly in the morning and evening, and retirin"- into the 

 his Commentaries, has defcribcd tiiem as little inferior fliade of the lofty rocks which border the rivers during the 

 to elephants in fv/.c, and ref^mbling the bull in (hape, heat of the day. They are very wild, and fly from mankind • 

 figure, and colour. He adds, that they were very fwift but if wounded, they become furious, and purfue their 

 and fierce, and had lionis very much larger, and very enemy. 



different from thofe of the common bull. And Mentzelius The chacc of thefe animals conftitutes a favourite diver- 

 tells us, that it is a vaft and terrible fpecies of wild bull, fion of the Indians, and they are kdlcd either by fliootinff 

 common in Livonia, 5:c. and that when killed its brain is them, or by gradually driving them into a fmall fpace bv 

 found fcented like muflc. Mr. Ray wilhcs very much, that fetting fire to the grafs round the place where a herd is feed- 

 fome one, who has an opportunity of feeing this creature, ing. They are much terrified by fire, and crowd together 

 would give a more accurate and perfeft account than thofe to avoid it : they arc then killed by bands of Indians, with- 

 we already have of it. out any perfonal hazard. On fuch occafions, it is faid that 



This aninia' is the bos ferus of Pliny, the bonafus and 1500 or 2000 have fometimes been killed at a time. The 

 the bifon of Pliny, Gefner, Aldrov. and Linnjeus, the bos flefh is ufed as food, and the fj^ins and hair as commercial 

 taurus of the Linnxan fyllem v/ith round horns curving commodities, which latter, being of a woolly nature, may be 

 outer, and loofe dewlap ; and it is the fpecies of Bos from fpun into cloths, gloves, S:c. that are very ftrono-, and ap- 

 whicli the levcral races of cattle have been gradually derived, pear as if manufaftured from the bed wool. The fleece or 

 It is found wild in m:.ny parts both of the old and new hair of one of thefe bifons has been known to weigh eight 

 continent, inhabiting woody regions, and attaining to a fize pounds. Thefe animals are not domefticated bv the Indians 

 much larger than that of the domefticated or cultivated who have long lived in a favage ftate, and fublift chiefly by 

 animal. In his wild Itate, the bifon was dillinguiflied, not the chace. The common ox is the bifon reduced to a 

 only by his bulk, but by the fuperior depth and Ihagginefs domellic ftate. (See Ox and Cattle.) The Indian ox is a 

 of his hair, which, about the head, neck, and ftioulders, is variety found in many parts of India, and the Indian and 

 fometimes fo long as to touch the ground ; his horns are African iflands : it is of a reddilh colour, very- large fize 

 rather fhort, fharp-pointed. extremely ftrong, and fituated and diftinguiflied by a very large protuberance above the 

 at a diftance from each other at their bafis, hke thofe of ihoulders. (See Zeba.) The loofe-horned ox is found in 

 the common bull. His colour is fometimes a dark blackifli- Abyffinia and Madagafcar, and is diftinguifhed by its pen- 

 brown, and fometimes rufous-brown ; his eyes are large and dulous ears, and horns attached only to the il<in, fo as to 

 fierce ; his hmbs are very ftrong, and his whole afpeil ex- hang down on each fide. The boury is a native of Mada- 

 tremely favage and gloomy. The principal European re- gafcar and fome other iflands, and is of the fize of a camel 

 gions where this animal is now found, are the marfliy forefts and of a fnowy-white colour, with a protuberance on the 

 of Poland, the Carpathian mountains, and Lithuania. Its back. Theox of theifland of Tinian isofa white colour, with 

 chief Afiatic refidence is the vicinity of Mount Caucafus ; black ears. Pennant's Arftic Zool. and Shaw's Zoology, 

 but it is alfo found in other parts of Afia. The American VRY, in Geography, a town of France, in the department 

 bifon differs in no refpeft from the European, except in of the Mofelle ; 8 miles N.E. of Metz. 

 being more fliaggy, and in having a more protuberant bunch URZ AN, in Atident Gsography, a town of Afia, in the 



over the fhoulders ; the fore-parts of the body are very 

 thick and ftrong ; the hinder parts comparatively weak. 

 The colour of the American bifon is a reddifli-brown ; and 

 the hair in winter is of a woolly nature, faUing down over 

 the eyes, head, and whole fore-parts of the animal. In 

 fummer, it often becomes wholly naked, particularly on the 

 hinder parts of the body. It grows to a vaft fize, and has 

 been fo\md to weigh 1600, and even 2400 pounds; nor 

 can the ftrongeft man lift one of the fkins from the ground. 

 It has been a queftion of difficult folution, how thefe ani- 



iiiterior of Sufiana. Ptolemy. 



URZUM, in Geography, a tow.i of Ruffia, in tlie govern- 

 ment of Viatka ; 72 miles S. of Viatka. 



USA, a town of Japan, in the ifiand of Ximo ; 22 miles 

 S.S.E. of Kokura. 



UsA Baf, a lake of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; c miles 

 E. of Palatlka. 



US AD, a town of RiilTia, in the government of Viatka ; 

 16 miles S. of Malmifch. 



USADIUM Pkomontorium, in Ancient Geography, a 



mals migrated from the old to the new world ; but it was promontor)- of Africa, in Mauritania Tingitana, on thecoaft 



probably from the north of Afia, which anciently might of the wcftern ocean. 



have been ftocked with them, though they are now extmft USAGE, in Law. See Phescuiption and Custom. 

 in thofe regions. At that time, the two continents might Usage, in Language. See Langi;age. 

 have been united between Tfchutkinofs and tlie oppofite Usage, St., in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 headlands of America ; and the many iflands that lie off partment of the Saone and Loire ; 3 miles N. of Loudun. 

 that promontory, with the Aleutian or New Fox iflands, USALITANUM Oi'Pidim, [Jalloulah,) in Ancient 

 fomewhat more diftant, might be fragments of land, which Geography, an ancient town in the interior of Africa, men- 

 joined the two continents, and formed their infular ftate by tioned by Pliny, fituated W.S.W. of Adrumetum. 

 the mighty convulfion which divided Afia and America. USANAS, in AJlronomy, a Hindoo name of the planet 



The American bifon is found in the regions (lOO miles W. Venus, more commonly called Suira ; which fee. 



of Hudfon's Bay, and this is its moft northern refidence. USANCE, Uso, in Commerce, is a determinate time fixed 



From thence thefe animals occur in large droves as low as for the payment of bills of exchange, reckoned either from 



Cibola, in lat. 33" a little N. of California, and alfo in the the day of the bills being accepted, or from the day of their 



province of Mivera, in New Mexico ; and immediately to date ; and thus called, becaufe regulated by the ufagr and 



the S. of thefe parts the fpecie.s feems immediately to ceafc. cultom of the phaces on which they are drawn. Sec Bn.i, 



ifo inhabit Canada, W. of the lakes, and more of Exchange. 



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icy 



abundantly the rich favannas which border the river Bills of exchange are drawn at one or more nfancc», 



MilTilfippi, and the large riv.-rs that flow into it from the cither from fight, or from date. The Italians fay, ufo 



W., in ITpper Louifiana, wiiert innumerable herds of them Joppio, for doulle ufance, or liuo ufanccs. 



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