C 228 ) 
Ir.s Tfifloria j£rhjopica, (k) fays, that there are in 
ti'iopia bulls oi d'l uncommon iize, tvVice as large as 
t.iole in. Huhgary ^r\d Rujjiu ; and that having Ihevin 
{'...Tie oi the Idrgeit Oxen in (Germany to Gregory an 
Alijjyviian v from whole Writings and in‘ormations he 
coiie ‘ttd the Materials Icr ihat Work) he laid, 
thty were but ot a midling hze. Tne Letters of 
tticjtluits frtqjencly mention the largenefs of thele 
Oxen, and the laid / udoLf cites the tollowing paffage 
out of a Letter ol Alph<u.jus Vlcndtz'nts Patriarch iY AR- 
thiopja, dated June i, tO 6. Buui grand jftmi dt coma 
jrrnjurQt ament e grrjJ'j e lur.ghe^ taimente^ che nella 
coma di ciajcuno di cjfe potea captre un orre piccolo di vi- 
no : that is, very large Oxen with vajlly thick and long 
Horns, one of which would contain a la ge Uttr of'PVine^ 
F. Bernier^ in his account of the Great Mogul's Coun- 
try, (m) fays, that among miny Prefents, which 
two ^Ethiopian Ambalfadors Ihould have prefented to 
Aurengzeh, there was a prodigious large Horn oi a Bull, 
full ot Civet, which having been mealured by him, he 
found the Bafis, or large end, to be half a loot in Dia- 
meter. This Horn, as Bernier farther obferves, was 
brought by the Ambalfadors to Dehli, the place of 
Refidence of the Great Mogul ; but it was not prelented 
to him, becaufe, being diltrefs’d for Money, they had 
fold the Civet out of it, long before they came thi- 
ther. 
Upon the whole, it feenrs to me, that thefe Homs, 
and likewifethat mentioned by Bernier^ are the Horns 
of a large fort of bulls or Cows, in ^thiopia^ and the 
{kj) Lib. I. c. 10. 
( 1 ) Comment, in Hift. iErhiop. p. 145. 
(in) Tome. IL p. 43. 
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