Class I. OX. 29 



Primum cana salix madefacto vimine parvarn 

 Texitur in Puppim, csesoque induta juvenco, 

 Vectoris patiens, tumidum super emicat amnem : 

 Sic Venetus stagnante Pado, fusoque Britannits 

 Navigat bceano. Lucan. 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 

 Irish lakes ; and on the Dee and Severn ': in 

 Ireland they are called Curach, in England 

 Coracles, from the British Cwrzvgl, 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 when softened by water, 

 obeying the manufacturer's hand, they are 

 formed into pellucid lamina? ibr the sides of 

 Ian thorns. The last conveniences we owe to 

 our great king Alfred, who first invented them 

 to preserve fds candle time measurers, from. 



