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kind of j^thioplan Oxen, and the Horns, now in my 
pofleflion. His Words are, Ptolomao fecundo ex India 
cornu adatum ferunt^ quod tres arrtphoras caper et : Unde 
conjkere pojfumus lovem illum^ a quo ejufmodi tantum 
cornu extitijfet^ maximum fuiffe. Ludolfus^y^ his Hijio- 
ria Mthiopica^ (g) fpeaking of the large Ethiopian 
Oxen, conjecStures, that they are the Taurelephantes^ 
which Thilo^orgtus^ a Cappadocian^ fays, {^h) were 
brought to Qonftantinople in his time, where he faw 
them. The Words of PhiloflorgiuSy as tranfcribed by 
Ludolf in his Commentarius ad Hifloriam fuam /Ethio- 
ptcam{i\ are, Hahet ^ Terra ilia maximos ^ vafti(ftmo5 
Elephantas ; imo Taurelephantes, ut vocantur^ quorum 
genus quoad cater a omnia bos maximus efl^ corio verb colo- 
reque elephas^ ^ ferme etiam magnitudine. ' 
From all thefe feveral Writers it appears, that there 
is in Ethiopia (and probably the midland parts of 
Africa, where Travellers feldom come) a very large 
Animal of the lovinum genus, at leaft twice as big as 
our Bulls or Oxen, with Horns proportionably large , 
but otherwife differing from them in many refped-s. 
It is true, that in the accounts of uncommon things, 
given by antient Writers, an allowance muff fome- 
times be made for fomething fabulous mix’d with 
what is true, which is the lefs furprizing, as they 
had many things only by hear-fay : but as to this 
large fort of Bulls, it is confirmed by modern Wri- 
ters, that there is fuch an Animal in thofe Countries, 
though there is none, I know of, that hath given a 
defcription of it in the leaff: fatisfadory. Ludolf in 
(g) Lib. I. c. 10. 
{h) Lib. HI. c.ii. 
(/; P. 145* 
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