SURAT BUFFALO, 
or protuberance, we are informed, is verv deli- 
cious. These cattle are employed, at Surat, and 
other parts of India, for drawing in carts and 
carriages, and their milk is used in the dairies: 
for the former purpose, a ring is placed through 
the nose, and they are guided by means of a 
rope which is fastened to the ring. 
With such slight information, we cannot 
possibly decide that the animal is in truth a 
Buffalo, and not an Ox, though we have ven- 
tured to denominate it the Surat Buffalo. 
If it were not positively said, that the Buf- 
falo, or Bos Bubalus of Linnaeus, has no dew- 
lap on the breast, whereas this animal has ob- 
viously a very large one, we should incline to 
think it, notwithstanding other slight dissimi- 
larities, a mere variety of the Common Buf- 
falo : that it is a kindred species, seems highly 
probable. But it must not be concealed, that 
there is likewise considerable foundation for 
supposing it to approximate the Ox: and we 
should, perhaps, have noticed it under the ap- 
pellation of the Surat Ox, if that name had, 
not been already given to a diminutive varietv 
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