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was alfo cover’d with Plates of Eone, extend- 
ing from the Back to the Belly, and lapping one 
over another. It was armed with three ftrong 
pointed Bones, thick-fet, or rather ferrated with 
Teeth, one placed near the Back, and one near 
each Gill. Thefe Bones were three Inches long, 
and fo fixed in Sockets, that the Fifh can point 
them to any Dire&ion, in Defence of itfelf. This 
Fifii having no Teeth for Defence, Nature feems to 
have compenfated that Deficiency, by bellowing on 
him Weapons and Armour in a very extraordinary 
manner. It was given by Captain IVm. lValker y 
F. R. S. to Sir Hans Sloane. 
20. Bifon Americanus. 
This is the only Species of the wild Cow-kind 
that is known in North America ; there being none 
of our Cow-kind there, till brought over from Eu- 
rope. They are low of Stature, but weigh more than 
our largeft Oxen: The Skin of one is too heavy for 
the ftrongeft Man to lift from the Ground : Their 
Limbs are large, their Chefts broad, as are their 
Heads ; their Horns are large at their Balls, and turn 
inward ; on their Shoulders is a large Prominence 
or Bunch j in Winter their whole Body is covered 
with long fhaggy Hair, which in Summer fails off, 
and the Skin appears black and wrinkled ; except 
the Head, which retains the Hair on all the Year. 
On the Forehead of a Bull the Hair is fo long, that, 
by hanging over his Eyes, it impedes his Flight, and 
is frequently the Caufe of his Defirudtion. But this 
Obdru&ion of Sight is in fome meafure fupplied 
by his good Nofe, which is no fmall Safeguard to 
Z him. 
