COMMON OX* 
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»«ck, and shoulders, is sometimes of such a length 
as almost to touch the ground. His horns are ra* 
ther short, sharp-pointed, exceedingly strong, and 
stand distant from each other at their bases. His 
colour is generally either a dark or a yellowish 
brown. His limbs are very strong, and his 
whole aspect savage and gloomy. He grows 
to so enormous a size as sometimes to weigh six- 
teen hundred, or two thousand pounds, and the 
strongest man cannot lift the hide of one of* these 
from the ground. Wild oxen are found in the 
marshy forests of Poland, among the Carpathian 
mountains, in Lithuania, and also in several parts 
of Asia. 
In Lord Tankerville’s park, at Chillingham, 
near Berwick-upon-Tweed, there is yet left a 
breed of wild cattle, probably the only remains of 
the true and genuine breed of that species at pre- 
sent to be found in this kingdom. 
Their colour is invariably white, with be muz- 
zle black, and the whole inside of the &ar, and 
about one-third part of the outside, from the hip 
downwards, red. Their horns are whte, with 
black tips, very fine, and bent downwards. The 
weight of the oxen is from thirty-five to foty-five 
stone, and of the cows, from twenty-five o thirty- 
five, fourteen pounds to the stone. 
At the first appearance of any person rear them 
they set off in full gallop, and at the ditance of 
two or three hundred yards, wheel roundind come 
boldly up again, tossing their heads in a nenacing 
manner. On a sudden they make a full spp at the 
distance of forty or fifty yards, and loek wildly 
at the object of*their surprise: but, on the least 
motion, they all turn round, and gallop off with 
equal speed, but not to the same distance forxnin 
a smaller circle ; and again returning wit 
and more threatening aspect than before. 
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