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and even to run down the elk-antelope, anti/ope orcas. All that is said about the unfitness of bullocks for la- bour, and all the difference between the effect of pam- pering this species and horses, might chiefly be referred to the kind and proportion of training and exercise which either race enjoy, or are made to undergo in early life, By the way, too, there seems to be very little meaning or weight in the argument taken against the use of the bul- locks or other pecora, for drawing in the plough or car- riages, from the circumstance of their having four stomachs, and their being of the ruminating class of quadrupeds; for some of the fleetest and longest running animals in nature, are of the same description, as the stag, cervus elaphus; the roe, cervus capreolus; the rein deer, cervus tarandus; the chamois, antlope rupicapra; the antilope,

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