HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



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The BISON 



differs from the reft of the Ox kind, in having a large 

 lamp between its moulders, almoft as high as that of a 



Camel. He has a long maggy mane, which forms a 



kind of beard under his chin ; his eyes are fierce, his 

 forehead large, and his horns extremely wide. It is dan- 

 gerous to purfue him, except in forefts abounding with 

 trees large enough to conceal the hunters* He is gene- 

 rally taken in pits covered with branches of trees and 

 grafs, on the oppofite fide of which the hunters tempt 

 the animal to purfue them ; and the enraged creature 

 running towards them, falls into the trap prepared for it, 

 and is then overpowered and flain. 



The Bifon, or the animal with the hump, is found in 

 all the fouthern parts of the world, though greatly differ- 

 ing from each other in fize and form ; while the Urus, 

 or the one without the hump, chiefly occupies the tem- 

 perate and cold climates. The former extend through* 



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