THE KYLOE, OR HIGHLAND CATTLE. 235 



country ; but there may be more than double the 

 number which have local names applied to them, 

 from their locality or breeder, all having at least some 

 supposed qualification for which they are reared. 



The actual consumption of black cattle in Lon- 

 don alone in 1832, amounted to 1,364,160, and, be- 

 sides the immense quantity of animal food which 

 they afford, the different articles to which their va- 

 rious parts are applied and manufactured into, are al- 

 most incredible. Leather of different kinds is pre- 

 pared from the hides, after the hair has been removed, 

 and put aside for the use of the plasterer, &c. ; glue 

 from the refuse ; vellum from the skins of the calves. 

 Tallow is a well known article, so is horn, in its various 

 applications; the blood is not so commonly known as 

 an article extensively used in the clarifying of sugar, 

 and as the basis of Prussian blue ; while the common 

 and useful gold-beaters' skin is not generally under- 

 stood to be the lining of their intestines. With all 

 those useful properties, both in a living state and af- 

 ter death, it is singular that in civilized nations this 

 useful and commonly mild-tempered animal should 

 be sometimes treated with the utmost cruelty. The 

 old English practice of bull-baiting, which we have 

 already given an account of on pp. 227-8, exhibits 

 an example of this in Britain, and is curious to con- 

 template, in relation with the manners of our people, 

 and to contrast with its more luxurious analogy the 

 bull-fights of Spain. 



