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that will apply his ftrength 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 beaft will be as good meat, and 
fatten as well as a youne 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 {kin 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 fhort * roelis 
ing voyages. 
Primum cana falix madefacto vimine parvam 
Texitur in Puppim, czfoque induta juvenco, 
Vectoris patiens, tumidum fuper emicat amnem: 
Sic Venetus ftagnante Pado, fuloque Britannus 
Navigat oceano, Lucan. lib. iv. 131, 
* That thefe witslia navigia, as Pliny calls them, were not 
made for long voyages, is evident not only from their ftruc- 
ture, but from the account given by Solinus, that the crew 
never eat during the time they were at fea. Vide C. Junii 
al J: . 7 y* 
DOLzizZ / olybifears 56. 
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