Class 1. OX. 



Primum cana salix madefacto vimiiie parvatn 

 Texitur in Puppim, caesoque induta juvenco, 

 Vectoris patiens, tumidum super emicat amnem : 

 Sic Venetus stagnante Pado, fusoque Britaimus 

 Navigat oceano. Luca?i. lib. iv. 131. 



The bending willow into barks they twine ; 

 Then line the work with spoils of slaughter d kine. 

 Such are the floats Venetian fishers know. 

 Where in dull marshes stands the settling Po ; 

 On such to neighboring Gaul, allured by gain. 

 The bolder Britons cross the swelling main. Rowe. 



Vessels of this kind are still in use on the 

 Ii^ish lakes; and on the Dee and Severn: in 

 Ireland they are called Curach, in England 

 Coracles, from the British CztTZvgi, a word 

 signifying a boat of that structure. 



At present, the hide, when tanned and cur- 

 ried, serves for boots, shoes, and numberless 

 conveniences of life. 



Vellum is made of calves skin, and gold- 

 beaters skin is made of thin vellum, or a finer 

 part of the ox's guts. The hair mixed with lime 

 is a necessary article in building. Of the horns 

 are made combs, boxes, handles for knives, and 

 drinking vessels ; and v/hen softened by water, 

 obeying the manufacturer's hand, they are 

 formed into pellucid laminae for the sides of 

 lanthorns. The last conveniences we owe to 

 our great king Alfred, who first invented them 

 to preserve his candle time measurers, from 



