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em, when Mr, Western, an Essex squire, who divided his 

 life pretty equally between the cultivation of live-stock 

 and the passionate support of the politics of his friend, 

 Charles James Fox. While traveling in Italy (making 

 the grand tour), he observed, admired, and secured a male 

 and female of the breed called Neapolitan, * found in its 

 greatest purity (according to a letter addressed by Lord 





Fig. 23. LOUD WESTEUN ESSEX. 



Western to Earl Spencer in the Farmers 1 Magazine, Janu- 

 ary, 1839) in the beautiful peninsula, or rather tongue of 

 land, between the Bay of Naples and the Bay of Salerno. 

 . . A breed of very peculiar and valuable qualities, the 

 flavor of the meat being excellent, and the disposition to 

 fatten on the smallest quantity of food unrivaled.' 



" From this pair Mr. Western (afterwards Lord Western) 



bred in-and-in, until the breed was in danger of becoming 



extinct a sure result of in-and-in breeding. He then 



turned to Essex, and, there is reason to believe, to black 



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