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these cattle penetrated far inland. Tuke l informs 

 us that Henry Peirse, of Bedale, had a large 

 herd, and he publishes a representation of a 

 " polled Teeswater cow " belonging to Richard 

 Raisen, Bishop thorpe ; but their headquarters 

 were somewhere in the neighbourhood of Holder- 

 ness. It is doubtful, however, if their numbers 

 ever were large. Lawrence 2 describes them as 

 having " the same qualities as the short-horned 

 cattle, carrying vast substance, and some I have 

 seen lately are of a great size, although in that 

 particular, they are most conveniently various." 

 Strickland 3 gives their colour: "This breed is 

 distinctly marked by its colour, being variously 

 blotched with large well-defined patches of deep 

 red or clear black, in some families of dun or 

 mouse-colour on a clean white ground ; they are 

 never brindled or mixed, and rarely of one 

 uniform colour." 



Durham. There is evidence of both yellow 

 and dun cattle in Durham in the eighteenth 

 century. Writing in 1821 about a well-known 

 Shorthorn cow which lived about 1777, Mr. 

 Thomas Hutchinson says she was " a large 

 yellow cow with some white. . . . She might, 

 indeed, have been descended (for anything I 

 know to the contrary) from the old woman's 



1 "Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire," 1800. 



2 " General Treatise on Cattle," etc., 1805, p. 71. 



Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire," 1812. 



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