20 NATURAL HISTORY. 
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RUMINATING ANIMALS 
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Are fiich as are diftinguifhed for chewing the cud, 
and being the moft mild and eafily tamed. Lhe fero- 
cious or the carnivorous kinds, feék their food in™ 
gloomy folitude ; but thefe range together in herds, 
and the very meaneft of them unite in defence. of 
each other. ‘The food of ruminating animals bein 
eafily' procured, they feem more indolent, and lefs 
A than the carnivorous kinds, or thofe which feed 
on flefh. 
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BULL, OX & COW, 
Or all ruminating animals thefe are firft in rank, 
both with refpeét to fize, beauty and fervice. Many 
ofour Englifh peafants have only a cow, from which 
they obtain a livelihood. Cows improve the pafture 
which affords them their nourifhment. Their age is 
calculated by their horns and teeth. Of all creatures, 
this animal is moft affected by difference of foil, which 
_ being luxuriant, increafes their growth to a confider- 
able fize, while in more fterile countries they are pro- 
portionally diminutive. In Great Britain, the ox is 
the only horned anima} that will apply his {trength to 
the fervice of mankind; ‘dhe’ ox, in particular, will 
grow to a prodigious fize, an extraordinary inftance 
of which is,at this time to be feen'in London; he was 
bred at Gedney, in the county of Lincoln, and is al- 
lowed by judges to be much the large(ft and fateft ox 
ever feen in England; his beef and tallow alone being: 
computed to weigh 350 {tone, or 2800 pounds weight. 
‘There is no part of this animal without utility ; the 
blood, fat, marrow, hide, horns, hoofs, milk, cream, 
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