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remarkable. All the other parts of the body 
are covered with long hairs, like those of the 
He-Goat. The hoofs are large; and the 
false hoofs, which prcje£l greatly, are convor 
externally, and concave within. The colour 
of xho. head and body is usually black ; but 
the mane is of the same beautiful silvery hue. 
as the tail. The size of these animals hai 
been compared, by Pallas,, to that of a small 
domestic cow: but, as Pennant remarks, the 
growth of those which he saw, was probably 
checked bv their being brought very young, 
from tlieir native countrv into Siberia. Mr. 
Bogle speaks of them as. larger than the com- 
mon Thibet breed and Marco Polo,, a Vene- 
tian gentleman, who vIsitedTartarv, and most 
other distant countries, in the thirteenth cen~ 
tury, expressly says,, that the wild kind^ whicli 
he saw on his travels,, were nearly, as large as 
clepliants.. This, though it corresponds witli 
the account of Guiilaume Dc Rubniquis, a. 
Friar sent by Louis IX. or St. Louls^^ as Am- 
bassador to the Khan of I'aitary, in 1253^ 
and who wrote liis extensive Travels, which, 
he addressed to his Royal Master, may be 
bomcwhat exaggerated: nevertheless, from the 
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