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these cattle penetrated far inland. Tuke ^ informs 

 us that Henry Peirse, of Bedale, had a large 

 herd, and he publishes a representation of a 

 " polled Teeswater cow " belonging to Richard 

 Raisen, Bishopthorpe ; but their headquarters 

 were somewhere in the neighbourhood of Holder- 

 ness. It is doubtful, however, if their numbers 

 ever were large. Lawrence'^ describes them as 

 having " the same qualities as the short-horned 

 cattle, carrying vast substance, and some I have 

 seen lately are of a great size, although in that 

 particular, they are most conveniently various." 

 Strickland^ gives their colour: "This breed is 

 distinctly marked by its colour, being variously 

 blotched with large well-defined patches of deep 

 red or clear black, in some families of dun or 

 mouse-colour on a clean white ground ; they are 

 never brindled or mixed, and rarely of one 

 uniform colour." 



Durham. — There is evidence of both yellow 

 and dun cattle in Durham in the eighteenth 

 century. Writing in 182 1 about a well-known 

 Shorthorn cow which lived about 1777, Mr. 

 Thomas Hutchinson says she was *' a large 

 yellow cow with some white. . . . She might, 

 indeed, have been descended (for anything I 

 know to the contrary) from the old woman's 



' "Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire," i8oo. 



2 " General Treatise on Cattle," etc., 1805, p. 71. 



3 "Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire," i8i2. 



