Appendix 
Norr A\(p; ) 22) 
In his account of Maidstone and Distrié, 
Marshall writes: 
“No district in the Island, perhaps, of equal 
extent and fertility, breeds fewer cattle than the 
distri@t under view. Its entire stock may, with 
little licence, be said to be Welch, or of Welch 
origin ; although it is situated at an extreme point 
of the Island, some hundred miles distant from 
the source of the breed. . . . 
“The Welch cattle are mostly brought in, by 
drovers of Wales, while young; as one, two, or 
three years old. They are bred in different parts 
of the Principality. But the heifers, which are 
brought in for milk, are mostly of the Pembroke- 
shire mould. Many of them make handsome cows, 
which are said to milk well, and to fat quickly. 
Several thousands, of different descriptions, are 
annually brought into the county. In the month 
of O€tober the roads are everywhere full of them : 
some going to the upland districts, others to the 
Marshes.” 
(Marshall’s Rural Economy of S. Counties, 
1798, Vol. I.) 
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