AMERICAN BISON. 
the two kinds. The Aurochs, or Ox without 
a hunch, is the most powerful or predominant 
of the two ; being found in ahnost every cli- 
mate, either wild or domesticated : but, were 
it the reverse, the hunch, instead of disap- 
pearing, would extend, and continue, on every 
/one of this mixed breed. Besides, BufFon con- 
tends, this hunch of the Bison, like that of 
the Camel, is less the production of nature, 
than the effe61: of labour, and a mark of sla- 
very. From time immemorial, in almost eve- 
rv quarter of the globe, man has constrained 
the Ox to carry burdens ; till the habitual and 
often excessive load has deformed the back, 
and is afterwards propagated by generation. 
Undcformed Oxen are scarcely to be seen, 
except in those countries where thev do not 
use them as beasts of burden. In all Africa, 
on all the Eastern continent, the Oxen are 
hunch-backed, from having constantly carri- 
ed heavy burdens on their shoulders ; but, in 
Europe, wliere they are onlv employed for 
draught, thev have not undergone this altera- 
fion, and are never seen with that deformity. 
'I'hc tvsi cause cf this, very probably, arose 
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