An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

and indeed so much the less, because not only the Northern Regions (in divers parts of which, it is said by Writers, that not only the Bisontes, but Uri, are found at this day) are the proper soil where these Animals are bred, but the Eastern parts also bring them forth. Pliny writes, that the Indian woods are full of them, and so doth Aristotle, I collect also out of Diodorus (lib. 3.) that the Country of the Trogloditicks, which ⟨p. 357⟩is seated at the bosom of the Red-Sea, opposite to Africa, hath these Uri in it. And though no Author doth affirm, that Syria and Palestine yield these wild Oxen, yet this doth not hinder, but that in old times, when the Israelites first inhabited those Countries, they were there; since it is no new thing, that the whole kind of some wild creatures should be utterly extinct in these Countries, where formerly they have abounded, of which England gives us a plain testimony in Wolves. Dion also reports the same of Lions, which sometimes were bred in some parts of Europe, but now for many ages have not appeared there. And the same witnesseth Ammianus (lib. 22.) concerning the Hippopotami in Egypt, of which none are to be found now in that Country.

and indeed so much the less, because not only the Northern Regions (in divers parts of which, it is said by Writers, that not only the Bisontes, but Vri, are found at this day) are the proper soyl where these Animals are bred, but the Eastern parts also bring them forth. Pliny writes, that the Indian woods are full of them, and so doth Aristotle, I collect also out of Diodorus (lib. 3.) that the Country of the Trogloditicks, which ⟨p. 357⟩is seated at the bosom of the Red-Sea, opposite to Africa, hath these Vri in it. And though no Author doth affirm, that Syria and Palestine yield these wild Oxen, yet this doth not hinder, but that in old times, when the Israelites first inhabited those Countreys, they were there; since it is no new thing, that the whole kind of some wild creatures should be utterly extinct in these Countreys, where formerly they have abounded, of which England gives us a plain testimony in Wolves. Dion also reports the same of Lions, which sometimes were bred in some parts of Europe, but now for many ages have not appeared there. And the same witnesseth Ammianus (lib. 22.) concerning the Hippopotami in Egypt, of which none are to be found now in that Country.