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mountains which separate Yorkshire from Lanca- 

 shire, etc., and, by crossing, have produced a 

 mixed breed called the Half longhorns ; a very 

 heavy, strong, and not unuseful kind of cattle ; 

 but we do not find that the one kind have spread 

 further West, or the others further East. But, 

 thirdly, I remember ^ a gentleman of the county 

 of Durham (Mr. Michael Dobinson), who went 

 in the early part of his life into Holland in order 

 to buy bulls ; those he bought were of much 

 service in improving the breed ; and this Mr. 

 Dobinson and neighbours, even in my day, were 

 noted for having the best breed of short-horned 

 cattle, and sold their bulls and heifers for great 

 prices. 



"But afterwards, some other persons of less 

 knowledge going over, brought home some bulls, 

 that in all probability introduced along that coast 

 the disagreeable kind of cattle, well known to 

 breeders adjoining the river Tees, by the appella- 

 tion of lyery, or double-lyered ; that is, black- 

 fleshed. . . . 



" The breed, like most others, is better and 

 worse in different districts ; not so much, I appre- 

 hend, 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) 



» CuUey was bom in 1730. See Sinclair's '* History of Short- 

 horn Cattle," p. 17. 



