THE LEICESTER LONG-HORNS. S7 



" His head, chap and neck remarkably fine and clean ; his chest 

 extraordinarily deep — his brisket down to his knees. His chine thin, 

 and rising above the shoulder-blades, leaving a hollow on each side 

 behind them. His loin, of course, narrow at the chine ; but remark- 

 ably wide at the hips, which protuberate in a singular manner. His 

 quarters long in reality, but in appearance short, occasioned by a 

 singular formation of the rump. At first sight it appears as if the 

 tail, which stands forward, had been severed, one of the vertebrae 

 extracted, and the tail forced up to make good the joint ; an appear- 

 ance, which, on examining, is occasioned by some remarkable 

 wreaths of fat formed round the setting on of the tail ; a circum- 

 stance which in a picture would be a deformity, but as a point is 

 in the highest estimation. The round bones snug, but the thighs 

 rather full and remarbably let down. The legs short and their 

 bone fine. The carcass, throughout, (the chine excepted) large, 

 roomy, deep, and well spread. 



" His horns apart, he had every point of a Holderness or a Tees- 

 water bull. Could his horns have been changed, he would have 

 passed in Yorkshire as an ordinary bull of either of those breeds. 

 His two ends would have been thought tolerably good, but his 

 middle very deficient ; but being put to cows deficient where he 

 was full, (the lower part of the thigh excepted,) and full where he 

 was deficient, he has raised the long-horned breed to a degree of 

 perfection which, without so extraordinary a prodigy, they never 

 might have reached." 



No wonder that a form so uncommon should strike the improv- 

 ers of this breed of stock, or that points they had been so long 

 striving in vain to produce should be rated at a high price. His 

 owner was the first to estimate his worth, and could never be in- 

 duced to part with him except to Mr. Princep, who hired him for 

 two seasons, at the then unusual price of eighty guineas a season. 

 He covered until he was ten years old, but then became paralytic 

 and useless. 



At a public sale of Mr. Fowler's cattle, 1791, the following prices 

 were given for some of the favorite beasts — a suflScient proof ot 

 the estimation in which the improved Leicesters were then held : 



Bulls. — Garrick, five years old, £250 ; Sultan, two years old, £230 ; 

 Washington, two years old, £215 ; A, by Garrick, one year old, 

 £157; Young Sultan, one year old, .-£210; E by Garrick, one 

 year old, £152. 



Cows. — Brindled Beauty, by Shakspeare, £273 ; Sister to,Gamck, 

 £120 ; Nell, bv Garrick, £136 ; Young Nell, by brother of Garrick, 

 £126 ; Black Heifer, £141 ; Dam of Washington, £l94. Fifty breed 

 of cattle produced £4,289 45. Qd. 



Another improver of the long-horns was Mr. Princep of Croxall, in 

 Derbyshire. He was supposed at that time to have the best dau-y 



