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they are, in general, more subject to Iyer or black 

 flesh, than those bred farther North ; and in that 

 rich part of Yorkshire called Holderness, they 

 are much the same as those south of the Humber, 

 of which we have been speaking. It is probable 

 that they had either stuck more to the lyery 

 black-beefed kind, than their more northern 

 neighbours, at that unfortunate period when 

 they were imported from the Continent, or that 

 the latter had seen their error. But from what- 

 ever cause this happened, it is a fact, that as 

 soon as we cross the Yorkshire Wolds, north- 

 ward, we find this breed alter for the better ; they 

 become finer in the bone, in the carcase, and, in a 

 great measure, free from that disagreeable lyery 

 sort which has brought such an odium upon this, 

 perhaps, most valuable breed. When you reach 

 that fine country on both sides of the River Tees, 

 you are then in the centre of this breed of cattle ; 

 a country that has been long eminent for good 

 stock of all kinds ; the country where the 

 Dobinsons first raised a spirit of emulation 

 amongst the breeders, which is still kept up 

 by Mr. Hill, the Mr. Charges, the Mr. Collins, 

 Mr. Maynard, etc." * 



It is unnecessary to make more or later quota- 

 tions to show that these east-country English 

 cattle came from the opposite shores of the 

 German Ocean. Documentary evidence as to 

 1 Quoted from the second edition, 1794, p. 40. 



