OTHER REASTS OR BURDEN 
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Bombay. All through the Mahratta country the ox 
is the common draught-animal, differing in speed and 
size according to the work for which he is required. 
Cattle of the Nagore breed, used by rich men to draw 
their state carriages, used to be kept near Delhi for 
carrying despatches. Mr. Youatt was informed that 
they would travel with a soldier on their back fifteen 
or sixteen miles in the day, at the rate of six miles an 
hour. The Nagore cattle have none of the awkward 
swinging motion of the legs of the English cow. 
They bring their hind-legs under them in as straight 
a line as the horse. “ They are very active,” continues 
Mr. Youatt, “ and can clear a five-barred gate with 
the greatest ease.” One owner possessed a calf 
which would jump an iron railing higher than a gate, 
and a bull which would leap the same railing to go 
to water, and having drunk, leap back again. 
Napoleon borrowed his idea of bullock transport 
for the first stages of his Russian campaign from the 
Indian army. But the Indian bullocks are shod, 
Napoleon’s were not, and the bullock transport was 
ruined before the frontier of Poland was reached. 
But even if this important detail had received atten- 
tion, it may be doubted whether a large experiment 
in the use of a new beast of burden ever succeeds in 
an old country. Natural selection never proceeds 
faster than when controlled by human necessity, and 
though the dog may be reinstated in the tradesman’s 
carts, the ox continues to disappear from the dwindling 
area of arable land in this country. 
