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be attributed to abundance of nourishment ; since, as M. Cuvier 
observes, in the paragraph just quoted, the skull itself is of an 
enormous size ; and it cannot be unfair to infer, that the other bones 
of the animal were in the same proportion : and that such a prodi- 
gious size of the bones of the whole animal can be attributable merely 
to plenty of nourishment, I cannot suppose to be admissible. 
The bone of a horn, most probably of this species, found by Mr. 
Peale, in Kentucky, was of still larger dimensions than those in the 
Museum of Natural History, since the circumference of its base was 
more than eighteen inches. Another fossil core of a horn, probably 
of this species, is described by M. Mayer, which must have even ex- 
ceeded this in magnitude. 
The second species of these horns surpass in size those of our domes- 
ticated oxen, and differ from them also in having a different direction. 
The skulls to which these horns are attached are very different from 
those of the aurochs ; and, as has been already remarked, are sup- 
posed by M. Cuvier to have belonged to a very different race ; to that 
wild race, which was the original stock of our present domesticated 
oxen. The osteological characters of the skull, he supposes, prove 
their affinity ; and the difference in the direction of the horns, he 
conceives by no means a character sufficient to mark a species. 
Horns of this latter description have been frequently found. Several 
have been found in France ; and M. Faujas has seen them in the 
cabinets of Manheim and of Darmstadt, and in that of M. Saltzwedel, 
at Francfort. They have also been dug up in the neighbourhood of 
Stuttgardt ; and M. Soldani describes a skull of this species, found 
near to Arezzo, the forehead of which was a foot wide, and the horns 
two feet seven inches long, and fourteen inches in circumference at 
their base. He also mentions another found near Rome, at the depth 
of twenty feet. The width between the orbits was fourteen inches ; 
and the circumference of their core, at its base, was eighteen inches. 
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