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poe? cty^ioi tv Agoc^uToi;. Sinens. S* Buffalo, 
Arift. htft. lib. ii. c. i. Bos cornibus compreflis, furfum 
Bos Indicus. Plin. lib. viii. c. 45. reflexis, refupinatis fronte crif" 
Bubalus. Gefner quad. 122. Raii pa. Brijfon quad. £4. 
jyn. quad. 72. Klein quad. 10. Bos cornibus. refupinatis intortis 
Bull elephants. Ludolph . JEthiop. antice planis. Lin. fyji. 99. 
52. Le Buffle. De Buffon xi„ 284. tab. 
Buffalo. Dellon voy. 72. Fannul. xxv . Br. Muf. AJhm. Muf. 
O. with large horns, ftrait for a great length from 
their bafe, then bending inwards 5 not round but 
comprefled, and one fide ftiarp. 
Found wild in many parts of Africa and India: 
but in both are domefticated: ferve for milking 
and producing cheefe : are very common in Italy , 
originally brought from India y into Lombardy , in 
the reign of King Agilulf who reigned from 591 
to 616 *. They are faid to be found wild in Apu~ 
glia > and to be very common in hot weather on 
the fea fliore, between Manfredonia and Barletta ; 
ferve for the draught and for the faddle inftead of 
horfes; grow to an enormous fize, twice the bulk of 
our largefl oxen, from which fome call them Tau~ 
relephantes. A pair of horns in the Br. Mufeum, 
probably of this kind : one is 6 feet 6 inches \ long, 
weighed 21 lb, and the hollow contained five quarts 
of water. LgIo mentions fome that would hold 
more than ten. Dellon has feen fome in India 10 
feet long : they are fometimes wrinkled, but oftner 
fmooth and black : fkin almoft deftitute of hair* 
* Tunc primum caballi fylvatici ct Bubali in Italiam delati, Italia. 
populis miraculo fuerunt. V/arnefridi de gejlis Longobardor. Lib. iv 
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