The New Hampshire Gazette

It being a received notion, That the Welsh cattle are universally small, we shall here present our readers with the weight and dimensions of an ox lately slaughtered at Cowbridge, in the county of Glamorgan, in which county he was also bred. The four quarters of this beast, which for size might, with much greater propriety, have been supposed to have belonged to an elephant, weighed 1642 lb. his hide 161 tallow 158 his height was six feet three inches, his length, from head to tail, 17 feet seven inches, and cost 20l. The Reader is to observe, that this is a remarkable large price for it to have been sold at on the spot; though we know a gentleman, not two miles from the above mentioned place, who has more than once sold oxen of his own rearing, at Bristol, for 45l. a yoke. We mention this circumstance as a proof, that large cattle are no rarity in that country.