334 Chap, 3 9,, fyn Expoftion atpon the BookofJ o B. Verf, 9. `mg it mull be granted, that they who have expounded Reem by that bean}, have fpoken more probably, and have come much ' neerer the truth, than they who underfiand by it, either the ' Unicornor the Rbinocerote, There remains two forts of wild Oxen, Bulls or Bullocks, the Drus and B%fn: ; which latter is fo like theBonafus, that by. ' fome he is taken for the fame ; yet between the Brton :, pro perly fo called, and the Bonafns or $ufalnt, their horns make a very remarkable difference. What the form of the hornsof the Bufalo: is, bath been Chewed ; butthe Bijou have them a lit- ` de bowing in the top or point, inwhich refpeel they are corn.. `pared by Oppiann: to brazen fish-hooks, but in thetefl or body ` of them they fpread upwrard,orRand right up,and not fo unfit to fight with , infomuch that fome have called them (Lettferor 'tanras) deadly Bulls. And though we grant to gelver (whode- ' nyeth the Bona(ì and Bifontes to differ in fpecie) that the diffe- rence which is between the horns-of -thee two beafls, isnot fufficient to conflitute a fpecifical difference between them; ' yet when befides thedifference in their horns, there are other con(lantdifferences, as namely, that the beau called Bontfu ' doth not fightwith his head, but with his heels, and runs away aas food as wounded (as e4riflotle reports of him, lib. 9, HifP, ' cap.. 4y.) whereas the beafl called Bifons, ufeth his horns only 'sin fight, and is not at all dilcouraged by being wounded, but ' like a Boar or a Lion, at1aults his purCuers the more fiercely (as ' is fet forth at large by Sigifnsnndus Liber,iìoAwfcovietici:)there- ' fore we maywell conclude, that there is a fpecifical difference ' between thefe animals, Now though the beafl calledBifons, confidering the great. `nefs and Rrength of his horns, as alto his fiercenefs, might be ' taken for the bean in ob, called Reem, yet he is not that bean., becaufe he may be tamed by the art of man, and made ro put ' off his-fiercenefs ; as appears abundantly out of a good Author, 'But as for the bean calledReem, he never gives over the fierce- 'nefs of his nature, nor can he be tamed or brought to hand ; ' as appears fully, by what God faith of him in this 39th Chapter ' of the book of rob. In which, when God had propofed the. more remarkable properties of feveral creatures to the confide- ration of job, be brings in this bead, called Reem, otlly to fet `forth ;Prafoni es in TJVCJLJJ ,
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