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BOOTAN. 
The Yak of Tartary d , called Soora Goy in Hindostan, and which l 
term the bushy-tailed bull of Tibet, is about the height of an English 
bull, which he resembles in the general figure of the body, head, and 
legs. I could discover between them no essential difference, except 
that the Yak is covered all over with a thick coat of long hair. 
The head is rather short, crowned with two smooth round horns, 
which, tapering from the root upwards, terminate in sharp points; 
they are arched inwards, bending towards each other, but near the 
extremities are a little turned back. The ears are small: the forehead 
appears prominent, being adorned with much curling hair: the eyes 
are full and large : the nose small and convex : the nostrils small: the 
neck short, describing a curvature nearly equal both above and below : 
the withers are high and arched. The rump is low ; over the shoulders, 
rises a thick muscle, which seems to be the same kind of protuberance 
peculiar to the cattle of Hindostan, covered with a profusion of soft 
hair, which, in general, is longer and more copious than that along the 
ridge of the back to the setting on of the tail. The tail is composed of 
a prodigious quantity of long, flowing, glossy hair; and is so abun¬ 
dantly well furnished, that not a joint of it is perceptible; but it has 
much the appearance of a large cluster of hair artificially set on: the 
shoulders, rump, and upper part of the body, are clothed with a sort of 
thick soft wool; but the inferior parts with straight pendent hair, that 
descends below the knee; and I have seen it so long in some cattle, 
which were in high health and condition, as to trail upon the ground. 
From the chest, between the legs, issues a large pointed tuft of straight 
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