Is a very strong fierce creature; his strength, in all his body, is very great, but particularly about the head and neck; his forehead seems to be made for fight, having short thick horns, with which he can toss up into the air a large dog and other weighty things: his voice is deep and loud, and, when furious, nothing can stop his devastations. The species is divided into several breeds; the two following specimens present, first, a cow as they generally are in Essex and adjacent counties; and secondly, one of the Scotch breed. The Bull holds the second place among the signs of the Zodiac, as a mark of respect bestowed upon him by the ancient Egyptians for his usefulness in tilling the ground, whilst, on the contrary, he has been, and is still the object of one of the most sanguinary amusements in Spain and other countries. The Bull does not live longer than sixteen or eighteen years. He is represented, in mythologic subjects, as the usurped form under which Jupiter deceived and stole away Europa; in scriptural paintings he is the attribute of St. Luke, the Evangelist.

Is the female of the animal above mentioned, and lives somewhat shorter than him. She has seldom more than one calf at once; and her time is about nine months. Alive, the Cow is a second mother to man; she yields her distended udders every morning and evening to feed us, and is generally soon deprived of her offspring in order, that, whilst it contrives to fill our markets, her milk may the longer pour in nectareous streams in our cups, be churned into butter, or pressed into cheese.

When dead, her flesh becomes our principal nourishment; her skin, being wrought into boots and shoes, defend us from the mud and the rain; her hairs strengthen the plaster partitions of our

houses, and her horns and hoofs, being melted and dissolved, add to our pleasure and comfort in a multifarious sort of ways; her diseases even have of late proved beneficial to mankind, in the successful practice of Vaccination. For a long lapse of centuries, the Hindoos, well impressed with the sense of gratitude that so useful an animal could not fail to excite, have paid divine honours to the Cow, and worship her to this moment.

Is fattened, after the labours of his youth are over, to procure us an excellent food in his flesh. As he seldom fights, being of a gentle nature, his horns grow at a great length, and bend out laterally according to the kind to which he belongs. He has eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, and none in the upper; a wonderful contrivance which the whole species received from Providence to nip the grass in the meadow. All animals of the Cow kind ruminate, and therefore are provided with three sorts of paunch or stomach; the honours aforesaid, paid to the Bull for his agricultural services, really belong to the Ox, who draws the plough and cart with the greatest

steadiness and perseverance.

The animal repre

sented above is of the Herefordshire breed. The Bull, the Ox, and the Cow feed only upon herbage; and the meekness of the two last is such that a child is often left with the care of a whole drove of them. Speaking of a herd drinking, the poet of the Seasons says, with his usual elegance:

in the middle droops

The strong laborious ox, of honest front,
Which incompos'd he shakes, and from his sides
The troublesome insects lashes with his tail,

THE noblest conquest that man ever made on the brute creation was the taming of the Horse, and the engaging him to his service. He lessens the labours. of man, adds to his pleasures, advances or flees, with ardor and swiftness, for attack or defence; shares, with equal docility and cheerfulness, the fatigues of hunting, the dangers of war, and draws with appropriate strength, rapidity or grace, the heavy ploughs and carts of the husbandman, the light vehicles of the

rich, and the stately carriages of the great. The specimen above is that of a young Cart Horse. The following figure represents the Hunter and Race-Horse.

The Hofse is bred now in most parts of the world: those of Arabia, Turkey, and Persia are accounted as better proportioned than many others; but the English race may justly claim the precedence over all the European breed, and are not inferior to all the rest in point of strength and beauty.

The intelligence of the Horse is next to that of the Elephant, and he obeys his rider with so much- punctuality and understanding that the Americans, who had never seen a man on horseback, thought, at first, that the Spaniards were a kind of centaurs, a monstrous race, half-men and half-horses. The Horse is allowed by nature but a short life, as he seldom lives longer than twenty years. We may suppose that in the savage state, he might attain the age of forty, and it is melancholy to think that our bad treatment has shortened the days of so useful a creature. Mare, his female, is as elegant in her shape. She goes eleven months, and seldom foals double. From the teeth of the Horse his age is known, and his

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