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modern Italy is thus expressed by McKenny 

 Hughes^: " If a selection of the lighter coloured 

 individuals of the common draught-ox of Italy 

 were turned out in a park in England, no one 

 would suspect that they did not belong to the 

 wild white breed. ... A comparison of the 

 skeleton of the Chillingham bull in the British 

 Museum with that of an Italian bull presented by 



MODERN ITALIAN BULL. 



[From McKenny Hughes. 



CHILLINGHAM BULL. 

 [From McKenny Hughes. 



the King of Italy, shows that there is no essential 

 difference between them." 



A short consideration of a few other circum- 

 stances will make the connection between the two 

 sets of cattle still clearer. A Roman colony was 

 not altogether parallel to many of our modern 

 colonies. The Romans in Britain were rather 

 organisers of an empire than colonists. They did 



' op, cit., p. 20. 



