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they have abounded for centuries. In the year 1837, we saw a 

 very fine, black, polled Galloway cow, at the General Hospital, 

 in Philadelphia. How she came there, we could not ascertain. 



About the year 1850, some enterprising Scotch farmers made 

 the first importations of Galloways into the vicinity of Toronto, 

 in Canada West. They already had the short-horns there, of 

 high quality, imported many years before, and some of them 

 were kept and much liked by the same farmers who brought out 

 the Galloways. But the latter were the cattle of their native 

 land, and their attachment to them there was too strong to be 

 overlooked or forgotten in their new homes. The cattle pos- 

 sessed certain qualities which they found here in no other race, 

 and with a characteristic love of their native land, as they loved 

 the poetry of Burns, and repeated his songs, they also longed 

 for, and sought the cattle of their native hills and heather. 

 There must have been several different importations, for in the 

 year 1857, we saw upwards of forty of them exhibited by com- 

 peting owners at a Provincial agricultural show, at Brantford, 

 and have since met them in equal numbers at other shows in the 

 Province. 



They were fine cattle full, round, and comely in form ; robust 

 in appearance; showing a ready aptitude to take on flesh; elas- 

 tic to the touch ; a good skin, with long, thick, wavy hair ; of 

 placid look, and apparently kindly temper. In addition to these 

 good qualities, some of their owners declared them to be "good 

 milkers." But their indications in that line did not show it, 

 although, in practice, there may have been exceptions to what 

 we thought indicated an opposite tendency. Their colors were 

 black, generally, although we found one or two dull reds, or 

 duns, and a brindle (black and red mixed,) among them which 

 colors, according to Youatt, are admissible. Taken altogether, 

 the cattle fully answered his description. 



