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they be lamed or grow old, an old working beast will be as good 

 meat, and fatten as well, as a young one. 



There is scarce any part of this animal without its use. The 

 blood, fat, marrow, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, milk, cream, but- 

 ter, cheese, whey, urine, liver, gall, spleen, bones, and dung, 

 have each their particular use in manufactures, commerce, and 

 medicine. 



The skin has been of great use in all ages. The antient Britons, 

 before they knew a better method, built their boats with osiers, 

 and covered them with the hides of bulls, which served for short 

 coasting voyages. 



Primum cana salix madefacto vimine parvam 



Texitur in Puppim, caesoque induta juvenco, 



Vectoris patiens, tumidum super emicat amnem : 



Sic Venetus stagnante Pado, fusoque Britannus 



Navigat oceano. Lucan. lib. iv. 131. 



The bending willow into barks they twine: 

 Then line the works with spoils of slaughter'd kine. 

 Such are the floats Venetian fishers know, 

 Where in dull marshes stands the settling Po; 

 On such to neighbouring Gaul, allured by gain, 

 The bolder Britons cross the swelling main. 



Rowe. 



Vessels of this kind are still in use on the Irish lakes; and on 

 the Dee and Severn : in Ireland they are called Curach ; in Eng- 

 land Coracles, from the British Cwrwgl, a word signifying a 

 boat of that structure. 



Bull Fights in Spain. Among'the diversions and pastimes of the 

 Spaniards, there is none so peculiar and interesting as their bull 

 feasts ; it will be necessary therefore to insert here the account of 

 the bull feast exhibited in the Placa Mayor, at Madrid, upon occa- 

 sion of the late king's public entry into his capital, on the 15th of 

 July, 1760, as given by Mr. Clark, although compelled to take 

 his ideas without adhering to his verbal description. 



The square which is large, was thronged with people, and all 

 the balconies ornamented with different-coloured silks, and crowd- 

 ed from the top to the bottom of the houses ; the avenues to the 

 square were built up into balconies, and a sloping scaffold placed 

 round for the common people, and raised about eight or nine feet 

 from the ground. 



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