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are half long-horns, half polls. On the borders of 

 Northumberland they are mixed with short-horns, 

 as far as Tiviotdale, where they become altogether 

 a coarse kind of short-horned animals, or what the 

 Yorkshire jobbers call runts ; except a few tolerably 

 good short-horned cattle, bred in that fine country 

 the Tweed-Side. The same kind ofruntish, coarse 

 breed, continues all the way to the Frith of Forth, 

 crossing this narrow sea into Fifeshire. A stranger 

 would at first imagine the Fife cattle to be a dis- 

 tinct breed; but this arises only from their being 

 more nearly allied to the Kyloes. The cattle all 

 along this coast, continue to change, more and 

 more, diminishing gradually in size, until, upon 

 the edges of the mountains, they become quite of 

 the Kyloe kind; but still much inferior to that pure, 

 unmixed, and valuable breed of Kyloes, which are 

 met with in the more northern and western High- 

 lands. 



Dr. Anderson speaks of having seen a kind of 

 Highland cattle, which had a mane on the top of 

 the head, of considerable length, and a tuft betwixt 

 the horns that nearly covered the eyes, giving 

 them a fierce and savage aspect. He mentions 

 another kind, the animals of which have hair of a 

 pale lead colour, very beautiful in its appearance, 

 and in its quality as glossy and soft as silk*. 



Anderson on Rural Affairs, iii. p. 1. 



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