THE BULL. 



climates, but by a wonderful and providential conformation, is capable of 

 bearing the extremes of all. It endures the heat of the torrid zone, and the 

 cold of regions covered almofl conftantly with fnow, and all the intermediate 

 temperatures. This is the caufe of the very great variety obfervable in this 

 ipecies, and having been long under the fubjeclion of man, it poffeffes a 

 degree of humble tra&ability, which renders it very valuable. The largelt(A) 

 and molt excellent varieties are found in the ifland of Great Britain ; the 

 climate and rich paftures of which feem peculiarly adapted to this animal. 

 But the varieties of lize, obfervable in the Cow, are not lefs remarkable than 

 what arife from its lhape, hair, horns, &c. Thefe are fo extraordinary as to 

 have induced fome writers to conlider them as different ipecies, and they 

 have received names accordingly; as the Urus, Bifon, &c. they all, however, 

 poffefs this certain mark, of having lprung from one common flock ; namely, 

 that all the varieties breed indifcriminately with each other, and their young 

 ones breed again : add to this, that the offspring of any variety may be made 

 to refemble any other, by altering the climate and food ; thus the Englilh 

 Bull, fent to India, foon degenerates in lize ; and the Bifon, on the other 

 hand, foon lofes the hump on his back, in England ; and fo of the reft. 



The Cow is furnilhed with eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, but has 

 none in the upper. The two middlemon: fall out at the age of ten months, 

 and are fucceeded by two others, which are broader, but not fo white ; at 

 lixteen months the two next white teeth are exchanged, in like manner, for 

 others ; and this happens every fix months, till all the cutting teeth are 

 renewed ; they are then long, pretty white and regular ; but become irregular 

 and black as the animal advances in years, and their inequalities becoming 



(a) " Two Oxen, bred and fed at Howick, in the county of Northumberland, were killed in March, 17B7> 

 at the age of feven years j they meafured, from the head to the rump, nine feet eight inches ; the height, at 

 the Ihoulder, was five feet ten inches, and they weighed one hundred and feventy eight-ftone five pounds 

 each. — Bewick's Quad. 



** It mult, however, be acknowledged, that the extraordinary fize and excellency of the Englifh cattle is 

 owing to the great induftry and attention beftowed on their breed, and to a judicious mixture with thofe of 

 other countries ; fuch as are purely Britifh, being inferior in fize to moft of thofe which are produced on 

 the continent." — Pennant's Sjn. Quad. 



