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NATURAL HISTORY. 
H3ur largefl; oxen, and their horns are fo large, 
that a pair is to be Teen in the niuleum, 
which meafure iix feet, fix inches, and a half 
in length, weigh forty two pounds, and hold 
ten quarts of water in their vacuities. Arif- 
totle, very properly, calls thefe creatures wild 
oxen. 
In the weftem parts of Florida, on this fide 
the MilTifippi, the buffalo is hunted af- 
ter the following manner : the hunters range 
thenifelves in four lines, forming a very 
large fquare; they then fet fire to the grafs, 
which is long and dry ; tlie animals draw 
clofer together, as the fire runs along the 
lines, of which they are much afraid, and 
naturally fly from it, until they get quite 
clofe together, they then attack them brifkiy, 
feldom fuffering any to efcape. At thefe 
hunting-matches they generally kill from a 
thouland to fifteen hundred of thefe animals. 
The buffalo, like other animals that feed 
on grafs, is inoffenfive when undifturbed ; 
but when wounded, or even fired at, their 
fury is ungovernable. 
In India, there is a fmaller kind of buffa- 
lo, which they make ufc of to draw their 
coaches. 
In the northern parts of America there is 
another animal, larger than the ox, which has 
fhort black hair, horns, a large beard, and a 
head fo covered with liair that he makes a 
moft foi'inidable appearance. . 
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