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The head and shoulders of the bull are cover- 

 ed with very long flocks of reddish woolly hair, 

 falling over the eyes and horns, leaving only the points 

 of the latter to be seen : on the chin, and along the 

 dewlaps, is a great length of shaggy hairs : the rest 

 of th« body during Summer is naked, in Winter it is 

 cloathed equally in all parts. The cow is lesser, and 

 wants the shaggy coat, which gives the bull so tre- 

 mendous an aspect. 



It grows to a great size, even to the weight of 

 sixteen hundred, or two thousand four hundred, 

 pounds. The strongest man cannot lift the hide of 

 one of these animals from the ground. 



The bison and auroch of Europe are certainly of 

 the same species ; the only difference between theni 

 consists in the former being less shaggy, and the hair 

 neither so soft nor woolly, nor the hind parts so 

 weak. Both European and American kinds scent of 

 musk. 



In ancient times they were found in different 

 parts of the old world, but went under different 

 names. In later days a white species was a native 

 of the Scottish mountains ; it is now extinct in its 

 savage state, but the offspring, sufficiently wild, is 

 still to be seen in the parks of Drumlanrig, in the 

 south of Scotland, and of Chillingham Castle in Nor- 

 thumberland. 



They are exceedingly shy, and very fearful of 

 man, unless they are wounded, when they pursue 

 their enemy, and become very dangerous. 



The chase of these animals is a favourite diver- 

 sion of the Indiauii : It is effected la two ways.... 



