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AND LOWER EGYPT. 239
strain is made by the exertion of the shoulders.
This method is in general use all over Turkey, and
it appears to rac exceedingly commodious: the
animal is more at its ease, has more force and
speed, than when it is in the fatiguing and ex-
tremely awkward attitude of pulling by the head.
It is to this method we must ascribe the thickness
of the withers, which the oxen of Egypt have more
elevated than those of our European countries. It
is possible, at the same time, that this may be a
natural swell, and that, on this account, they
may be considered as approaching to the bison, or
hump-backed ox *.
* Bos ferns. Lin.
strain is made by the exertion of the shoulders.
This method is in general use all over Turkey, and
it appears to rac exceedingly commodious: the
animal is more at its ease, has more force and
speed, than when it is in the fatiguing and ex-
tremely awkward attitude of pulling by the head.
It is to this method we must ascribe the thickness
of the withers, which the oxen of Egypt have more
elevated than those of our European countries. It
is possible, at the same time, that this may be a
natural swell, and that, on this account, they
may be considered as approaching to the bison, or
hump-backed ox *.
* Bos ferns. Lin.