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kind of cattle ; but we do not find that the one kind 

 iiave spread further west, nor the others further east. 

 ' This breed,' says Mr. Culley, ' hke most others, 

 is better and v/orse in different districts ; not so 

 much, I apprehend, from the good or bad quality of 

 the land, as from a want of attention in the breeders. 

 In Lincolnshire (which is the farthest south that we 

 meet with any number of this kind of cattle) they 

 are, in general, more subject to Iyer, or black flesh, 

 than those bred further north ; and in that rich part 

 of Yorkshire called Holderness, they are much the 

 same as those south of the Humber, of which we 

 have been speaking. It is probable that they had 

 either stuck more to the lyery black-beefed kind, 

 than their more northern neighbours, at that unfor- 

 tunate period, when they were imported from the 

 continent, or that the latter had seen their error 

 sooner. But, from whatever cause this happened, 

 it is a fact, that as soon as we cross the Yorkshire 

 wolds northward, vv^e find this breed alter for the 

 better ; they become finer in the bone, in the car- 

 case, and, in a great measure free from that dis- 

 agreeable lyery sort which has brought such an 

 odium upon this (perhaps) most valuahle breed. 

 When vou reach that fine country on both sides 

 the river Tees, you are then in the centre of this 

 breed of cattle ; a country that has been long emi- 

 nent for good stock of ail kinds. 



4i. The Devonshire Cattle. 



The Devonshire cattle are said to be found in the 

 greatest purity, and of the best kind, in the vicinity 

 of Barnstaple ; these are of a high red colour (if any 

 white spots they reckon the breed impure, particu- 

 larly if those spots run into one another), with a 

 light dun ring round the eye, and the muzzle of the 

 same colour ; fine in the bone, clean in the neck, 

 horns of a medium length bent upwards, thin faced 



