THE ZEBU. 



cartilage of their noftrils, which is fattened to a longer cord, and ufed as a 

 bridle. They are rode with a faddle, like horfes, and their motion is far 

 from unpleafant to the rider. The white ones are the molt efteemed for 

 this purpofe. They like wife life them to draw chariots and carts, which 

 fervice they perform in a very tradable and expeditious manner. 



However widely the Zebu may appear to differ from the common Bull 

 and Cow, it is certainly only a variety of the fame fpecies, as they breed 

 together very kindly, and, in a few generations, the hump on the back 

 entirely difappears. The Cow is fubjecl to a great many varieties, which 

 have given rife to a long lift of names in the nomenclature of quadrupeds; 

 fuch as the Urus, the Bifon, the Bonafus, the Hog Cow, the Siberian Cow* 

 and many others, which are all of them mere varieties of the fame animal. 

 But however thefe animals feem to differ in their outward appearance, 

 they perfectly agree in the internal conformation of their parts, which is the 

 true criterion of the fpecies, and keeps the animal dirtine! from all others. 



This quadruped is found all over India, in Arabia Petnea, and moft 

 parts of Africa. 



