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from esis Seep gene — of progreflion, for the ordi- 
s of quick eee carrying of burdens, or 
even for he fa adie. Such a eri s, Glamorgans, 
and the lighteft of the Suffex ae. It is not improbable, 
that fome of thefe are able totrot feven or eight miles with. 
in the hour. Three or four years fince, a Suffex ox ran four 
over Lewis courfe, for a hundred guineas, which he 
performed after the rate of fifteen miles ser hour Cuftom 
alone renders the ufe of bullocks for the faddle and the coach 
a bids of oxen faserer to our’s in activity and facility of 
progreffion, but the comparifon only proves thefe inferior, 
y no means ufeleis, even for quick draught. ere it 
really an obje& with usto make ufe of bullocks in this way, 
there can be no doubt of its fuccefs, if aided by an increafed 
attention to their e meafure of 
s much folicitude, an 
kindnefs, than we beftow on our beft horfes. 
cattle are extremely docile and quick of perception, patient 
and kind ; like the herfe, their chief travelling pace is the 
‘trot, and ‘they are reported by thofe who have ridden them, 
often to perform journies of fixty fucceffive days, at the rate 
of thirty to forty-five miles per day. It ought not to be 
forgotten i in favour of the ox, that, Tike the generous horfe, 
he is honeft to the laft, and never ftops, or fhews muleifh or 
afinine reftlefsnefs and difobedience.”” 
It is likewife ftated that “* much is faid in favour of the 
mule and the afs, on account of the duration of their labour 
to fo late a period, and a fuperiority thence challenged for 
the mule, even over the horfe ; but with the ox age feems 
to form no » hemay, with the utmoft truth, be faid 
never to grow old, fince his laft value is fuperior to his firft, 
and fince the peta of his fucceffor is, in every view, a benefit 
to a man ing an animal which exhautts not like the pee 
but manures ey improves the land on which he is fed an 
{upported.”’ 
The largeft oxen are to be chofen for work and for feed- 
ing, but then it muft be where there is land rich oe to 
mutt b 
afs ; 
middle ftate, neither too fat nor too lean. They m 
ill they are ten or twelve years old, and then “Did. 
t is obferved, that meat and fair treatment fucceed much 
better with this animal than ows. e be 
aged cheaper, and T they are not fo  sabjeek to difeafes, 
Th always indeed have good grafs and good hay, 
OXA 
and they are not fo ferviceable as korfes, when there is much 
working in carts, and where the ways are good; but for 
winter ploughing, where the ground is heavy, an ox will do 
as muc 
Every farmer, who can keep two teams, would do wifely 
to have one of them of horfes, and the other of oxen; 
it is much better to yoke them together ie the necks and 
breafts, than by the horns, as fome do ; and where a man 
calves every yee o ke P his ftoc 
for a farmer, eceflary things, to be a feller than a 
buyer. Ctalky lands iar Ae feet of oxen more than any 
other. eT 
Steal; ing xe or r ereatues of the ox kind, old or young, 
whether bull, . ftriGtly fo called, bullock, 
eifer, or alt is now ® felony without benefit clergy; as 
is likewife killing any of thefe, with an iaeae to fteal any 
part of their ar ie Stat. eo. II. cap. 34. 
and ftat. 14 p. 6. See 
Ox Bie in Srnitaley. See arrerene Lbis. 
Ox- 
UP Ts 
See CHRYSANTHEMU 
anguage, a name given n by the feamen 
to aie edad font that are fometimes met with on the 
coaft of Guinea; for at firft it appears in the form of an 
ox’s eye, and not much bigger; but it defcends with fuch 
celerity, that in a very little {pace of time, and often before 
they can prepare themfelves for it, it feems to them to over- 
{pread the whole hemifphere ; and at the fame time forces 
the air with fo much violence, that the fhips are fometimes 
{catered feveral ways, fome dire@ly contrary, and fome- 
times are funk downright. 
oe in Optics. See Sciopric and CamMERA 06- 
yi 
"Ox-Fly, in Natural Hiftory, a{pecies of two-winged fly, 
bred from a fly-worm, hatched under the fkin of oxen, from 
the egg of the parent ‘fy lodged there 
The female of this fly makes a number of {mall wounds 
of the creature’s bo As ses as hatched, the young 
ee and in a way 
ife. 
aces where they lie are eafily difcovered, as ther 
is ever a tumour about the that on the foreheads of 
children from falls; within this, and unde thick fin 
of the creature, is the I ; e country-people 
know very at a worm is contained within each of 
t 
creatures, giv moit vexation, tad naturally 
enough have ae this ne aaa of the egg of that 
; but this is an erroneous opinio r. Valtifnieri sean 
the firft who underftood the true ie of a cafe, an 
has aie a very full and excellent account of it. See 
and a RUS. 
Ox-Lipe, in See Pri 
Ox Monat, in Geography. a qooneit of Ireland, in the 
county of Sligo, ten miles W.S.W. of Sligo. 
x-Tongue, in Botany. See Picris 
OXALATS, in Chemiftry, 
oxalic acid with the bafes of falts. 
Acip, a vegetable 
in the oxalis acetofella, or wood forrel, from which it takes 
its name. 
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combinations of the 
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