22 NATURAL HISTORY. 
thicknefs and impenetrability, is dreffed,and forms. 
an article called éuff 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 largeft rivers with great fa- 
cility. 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 fize of our largeft 
oxen, and their horns are fo large, that a pair is to be 
feen in the mufeum which meafure fix feet, fix inches 
and a halfin length, weigh fortytwo pounds, and hold 
ten quarts of water in their vacuities. Ariftotle, ve- 
ry properly, calls thefe creatures wild oxen. 
In the weftern parts of Florida, on this fide the Mif- 
fiffippi, the buffalo is hunted after the following man- 
ner: The hunters range themfelves in four’ lines, 
forming a very large fquare ; they then fet fire to the 
grafs, which is long and dry ; the 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 
brifkly, feldom fuffering. any to efcape. At thefe 
- hunting matches they generally kill froma thoufand 
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 buffalo, which 
they make ufe 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 
hair that he makes a motft formidable appearance. 
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