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upon the best parts, except when made very fat. 

 When grazed, they feed very readily ; their weight 

 in general being from 20 to 35 stone ; some particu- 

 lar ones reach to more than 40 stone. The most 

 prevalent colour is black, some are brindled or dun ; 

 but the breeders here, like those in Galloway, prefer 

 the black ones. 



These hardy animals are in possession of all that 

 extensive and mountainous country called the High- 

 lands of Scotland (together with the Western Isles), 

 bounded on all sides by the sea and the Grampian 

 hills, the latter of which begin on the north side of 

 the Frith of Clyde, and run eastward into the sea 

 near Aberbeen. 



All the Lowlands of Scotland, except Galloway, 

 have a mixed breed of cattle : towards Cumberland, 

 they are half long-horns half polls ; on the borders 

 of Northumberland, they are mixed with short- 

 horns, until you reach near Teviotdale, where they 

 become altogether a coarse kind of short-horned, or 

 what the Yorkshire jobbers call runts, except a few 

 pretty good short-horned cattle, bred in that plea- 

 sant and fine country, the Tweedside. Tliis same 

 kind of runtisli coarse breed, continues all the way 

 to the Frith of Forth. Crossing this narrow sea 

 into Fifeshire, you would at first imagine the Fife 

 cattle a distinct breed, from their upiight v^^hite 

 horns, being exceedingly light-lyered, and thin- 

 thighed ; but it is only from their being more nearly 

 allied to the kyloes, and consequently less of the 

 coarse kind of short-horns in them. The cattle all 

 along this coast continue to change more and more, 

 growing still less, until, upon the edges of the 

 mountains, they become quite of the kyloe kind ; 

 but still much inferior to that pure, unmixed, valua- 

 ble breed of kyloes, which we meet with in the 

 more northern and western Highlands and all the 

 Isles, but particularly in the isle of Skye, and that 

 tract of country called Kintail. It is in these two 



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