GRUNT I NG OX. 
lists who should, in describing the Arabian 
horses, for example, call them all the Geldings, 
or the Mares-, of Arabia? Yet these, in truth, 
would be no more improper, than it is to call a 
whole species, the Ox, or the Cow. We are 
not unaware that, in this respect, the language 
is itself defe£live : and, we may add, that it is 
very objeiftionable, with regard to similar dis- 
tinftions, in other animals ; particularly, tlie 
"dog, and the horse. The rectification would, 
perhaps, not be difficult ; but weighty autlio- 
rity might be necessary to render current the 
most judicious new terms, and we "vvillinglv 
leave the task to such adepts in philological 
enquiries, as have had the good fortune to ob- 
tain tlie reputation of possessing an extraordi- 
nary degree of j)rofound learning. 
Pennant, who appears to have taken con- 
siderable pains in his account of the Grunting 
Ox, describes it as having a short head; a 
broad nose; thick and hanging lips ; and large 
cars, beset with coarse bristly hairs> pointed 
lownwards, but not pendulous. The horns, 
on the authority of Mr. Bogle, a most inge- 
nious and observant traveller, who cf late 
