NATURAL HISTORY. 2f 
. whey, urine, liver, gall, fpleen and_ bones, have each 
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their particular qualities. The hide when tanned, 
is manufactured into boots, fhoes, and various other 
- accommodations in life; vellum and goldbeater’s 
fkin are alfo obtained from thefe animals : The hair, 
mixed with lime, is ufed to cement our buildings: 
Combs, knife handles, boxes, buttons, drinking vef- 
fels, &c. are made of their horns, which are alfo ufed 
as antidotes to poifon, the plague and fmall pox : 
Glue is made from the chips of their hoofs, and the 
arings of the raw hides. ‘their bones are an excel- 
ent fubftitate for ivory ; and their feet afford an oil, 
fo generally known under the name of neat’s foot oil, 
that it needs no deicription here. The blood is an 
excellent manure fer fruit trees, and the chief ingred- 
ient of Pruifian blue: The gall, liver, fpleen and u- 
-Yine, are ufed in medicine. Milk, cheefe, cream and 
butter, are too common to require particular men- 
tion. The flefh is of two forts, namely, veal and beef, 
which, being dretled various ways, is calculated to in-- 
vigorate the weak, fupport the laborious, and gratify 
the voluptuous. 
The Urus, or Wild Bull, is generally found in Li- 
thunia, a province of Poland. ¥ 
There are other fpecies of the cow kind, fuchas the 
Bifon, Bonafus, Zebu, Beevehog, Butfalo and Siberi- 
an Cow. | 
BUFFALO. 
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‘Tue Buffalo, being more clumfy, is lefs beautiful 
than the cow. His fkin isafio harder, thicker, blacker 
and thinner of hair : His flefh is hard, black and dif- 
agreeable, both to the tafte and {mell: The milk, 
though abundant, 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 
