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necessarily led to the attention for these requisites 

 which have now been brought to such perfection. In 

 the same manner which we pursued when noticing the 

 natural history of the sheep, we have now selected 

 two of the British breeds for illustration, as much 

 contrasted as possible ; the others we shall very short- 

 ly notice under them. About ten varieties are ge- 

 nerally noticed, but there are more than double the 

 number known locally, either by the name of the 

 district or their original proprietors. The long- 

 horned, the middle-horned, the short-horned, the 

 Welsh breed, the Suffolk duns, Galloway polled 

 breed, Highland or Kyloe breed, Lowland or Fife- 

 shire breed, Alderney breed, and the wild breed, are 

 those enumerated by Dickson. 



But before proceeding to these details, we shall in 

 this place give some account of the barbarous though 

 stirring and heroic encounters of the Moors, Spa- 

 niards, and Romans in their bull-fights, widely con- 

 trasted as they are from the veneration in which we 

 have just mentioned that other nations have held the 

 animals at present under our notice. We have seen 

 the natives of Egypt and of the East deifying these 

 quadrupeds ; and useful and peaceful as they are when 

 unmolested, we must exhibit them tormented in a 

 variety of ways, and with a cruelty which to our 

 present habits seems almost incredible. The origin 

 of bull-baiting is supposed to be derived from the 

 Moors, and we cannot lay before our readers a more 

 interesting account of these extraordinary exhibitions, 



