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YAK. 



and below : the withers are high and arched. The 

 rump is low : over the shoulders rises a thick 

 muscle, which seems to be the same kind of pro- 

 tuberance peculiar to the cattle of Hindostan, co- 

 vered with a profusion of soft hair, which, in ge- 

 neral, is longer and more copious than that along 

 the ridge of the back to the setting on of the tail. 

 The tail is composed of a prodigious quantity of 

 long, flowing, glossy hair ; and is so abundantly 

 well furnished, that not a joint of it is percepti- 

 ble ; but it has much the appearance of a large 

 cluster of hair artificially set on : the shoulders^ 

 rump, and upper part of the body, are clothed 

 with a sort of thick soft wool, but the inferior 

 parts with strait pendent hair that descends below 

 the knee : and I have seen it so long in some 

 cattle, which were in high health and condition, 

 as to trail upon the ground. From the chest, 

 between the legs, issues a large pointed tuft of 

 strait hair, growing somewhat longer than the 

 rest : the legs are very short : in every other re- 

 spect he resembles the ordinary bull. 



These cattle, though not large boned, seem, 

 from the profuse quantity of hair with which they 

 are provided, to be of great bulk. They have a 

 downcast heavy look ; and appear, what indeed 

 they are, sullen and suspicious, discovering much 

 impatience at the near approach of strangers. 

 They do not low loud, like the cattle of England, 

 any more than those of Hindostan, but make a 

 low grunting noise, scarcely audible, and that but 

 seldom, when under some impression of uneasi- 



