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a forest of stiff bristles arising from it, may perhaps be taken as 

 representing to us now what the ancient British domesticated pig 

 was. The old Welsh pig resembles the Scotch in various points 

 characterising an unimproved breed, but its large ears, spoken of 

 familiarly by breeders as being 'as large as newspapers,' indicate 

 that it has been more thoroughly domesticated. Its colour also 

 is more constantly and deeply dark than is that of northern form 1 . 

 But the size of the ears and the colouration are both exceedingly 

 variable points. The condition of neglect and comparative freedom 

 in which the still surviving Scotch breed is described as living 

 has no doubt been constant since the earliest times ; and we may, 

 after making some allowances, fairly suppose that it must have 

 produced the same changes in the soft and perishable parts, and 

 so in the entire appearance of the swine of those days, that we can 

 see it has done in those subjected to it now. The bones of the 



1 It is not safe to assume that any appearance of a black colour in a pig of this 

 country shows it to be modern, as if this colour could only be due to some cross with 



