natural history. 
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of two forts, namely, veal and beef, which, 
being dreffed various w'ays, is calculated to 
invigorate- the weak, fupport the laborious, 
and gratify the voluptuous. 
The urns, or Wild Bull, is generally found 
in Lithuania, a province of Poland. 
There are other Ipecies of the cow-kind, 
fuch as the Bifon, Bonafus, Zebu, Beevehog, 
Buffalo, and Siberian cow. 
77 ;e B U F F A L O. 
T H E Buffalo, being more clumfy, is lefs 
beautiful than the cow. His flcin is alfo 
harder, thicker, blacker, and thinner of hair ; 
his flefli is hard, black, and difagreeable, both 
to the taftc and fmell : the milk, though a- 
bundant, is not fo good as that which the cow 
affords ; in the warm countries, however, it is 
ufed to make cheefe and butter. The hide, 
from its thicknefs and impenetrability, is dref- 
fed, and forms an article called buff leather^ 
after his name. 
Two of thefe animals, yoked together, 
will draw more than four ftrong horfes. When 
purfued, they will often fwim over the larg- 
ell rivers with great facility. They are 
found wild in many parts of Africa and Afia, 
and are likewife very common in Italy, from 
whence they were brought into Lombardy, 
A. D. 591, They grow to twice the file of 
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