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that will apply his (Irength to the fervice of man- 

 kind. It is now generally allowed, that in many 

 cafes oxen are more profitable in the draught than 

 horfes ; their food, harnefs, and fhoes being 

 cheaper, and fhould they be lamed or grow old, 

 an old working bead will be as good meat, and 

 fatten as well as a young one. 



There is fcarce any part of this animal without 

 its ufe. The blood, fat, marrow, hide, hair, horns, 

 hoofs, milk, creme, butter, cheefe, whey, urine, 

 liver, gall, fpleen, bones, and dung, have each 

 their particular ufe in manufactures, commerce and 

 medicine. 



The fkin has been of great ufe in all ages. The 

 antient Britains, before they knew a better method, 

 built their boats with ofiers, and covered them with 

 the hides of bulls, which ferved for Ihort * coaft- 

 ing voyages. 



Primum cana falix madefado vimine parvam 

 Texitur in Puppim, caefoque induta juvenco, 

 Vecloris patiens, tumidum fuper emicat amnem : 

 Sic Venetus ftagnante Fado^ fufoque Britannus 

 Navigat oceano. Lucan, lib. iv. 131. 



* That thefe ^jitilia na^igia, as Pliny calls them, were not 

 made for long voyages, is evident not only from their ftruc- 

 ture, but from the account given by Sclinus, that the crew 

 never eat during the time they were at fca. Vide C, Junii 

 Solini polykijior. 56. 



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