CHAP. IV. Of the Ox.
IN one of the outermost Provinces of Asia, between the outmost Mountains of India and Cathay, Oxen are bred white and black, with a horses tail, but more full of hairs, and reaching down to their feet. The hairs of them are most fine, like feathers, and as dear, Venet. Brought into Hispaniola they will grow so much, that they are grea∣ter than Elephants, Petr. Martyr in Decad. In these parts where we write these things, Guickardinus testifieth that one of them weighed above 1600 weight: we saw one at Leyden that weighed 2970, pound But Ptolomaeus 11, had the horn of one that held 27, gallons. When the Cows are great with young, men say they carry their young ones on their right side, though they be great with two. But they that drink of the River Charadrus, not farr from the City of the Patrenses, con∣ceive for the most part only Males: the same will come to passe if in time of copulation you bind the left testicle of the male with a band; or let them couple when the North wind blows, Pausan. in Achaicis: and if the right, or when the South wind blows, the Cows will con∣ceive a female. The Cows if they be more fruitfull in summer, are a Token of a rainy Winter. For a fruitfull Creature cannot abound with generative humour, unlesse it be moved by a celestiall influence, Albert. Somtimes they are very fierce. In the yeare 1551 in Rhoetia,