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RUMINANTIA.—BOVIDZ.
he is most indebted for the variety and extent of
its means of usefulness. If the qualities of the
Dog are of a higher and more intellectual character, and bring it into closer communication
with man as a social being; and if the Horse, as a
beast of burden, and of draught, serve more to
his immediate personal assistance, the Ox sur-
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DURHAM OX.
passes these, and all others, in the devotion of its powers while living, and the appropriation of every part of the body when dead, to the wants, the comforts, and the luxuries of his owner.” [1]
The domestic cattle (Bos taurus, Linn.) which form so important a part of the rural wealth of
- ↑ Brit. Quad. 412.
