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ture, and names have been given them as a distinct species, 

 when in reality they are all the same.' In this manner the unis 

 and the bison have been considered, from the vai'iety in their 

 make, to be distinct in their production ; but they are ail, in fact, 



The cows weigh from thirty to forty stone, and the oxen from forty to sixty. 

 The north Devon is the most esteemed for its flesh. The Sussex and Here- 

 ford are larger, of a deep red colour, well made, and bone not larger : an 

 ox weighs from sixty to one hundred stone. 



4. The Polled breeds, of which the most esteemed is the Galloway, straight 

 in the back, well moulded, with soft hair, black or dark brindled ; not large, 

 weighing generally about forty stone, before they are regularly fattened. 

 They travel well, and reach the Loudon markets, without deterioration. 

 The Suffolk Duns are a variety of this race, introduced from Scotland, and 

 crossed. 



5. The Highland race consists of several varieties, of which the West 

 Highland Argyleshire or Skye form the most valuable : of these the Kyloe 

 from the Hebrides, so named, because in their progress to the south, they 

 cross the Kyloes or ferries in the main land and Western Islands. The bulla 

 are of middle size, of a black dark brown, or reddish-brown colour without 

 white; head small; muzzle fine; horns rather slender, of a waxy green: 

 they weigh about fifty stone. The other variety is the Norlands, their hides 

 are coarse, the make narrow and long legged. The Orkney or Shetland are 

 of a diminutive size; an ox weighing about sixty pounds a quarter, and a 

 cow forty. They are of all colours, and their shapes generally bad ; but they 

 give a quantity of excellent milk, and fatten rapidly. 



6. The Fifeshire appears to be an improved breed of the HiglJand crossed 

 with the Cambridgeshire. They are black, spotted or gray ; the horns small, 

 white, very erect : the Aberdeenshire are a variety of them. 



7. The Welsh have two breeds; one large, dark. brown, with some white, 

 denoting a cross from the long-horned : they liave long legs, and slender ; the 

 horns white, and turned upwards, and next to the Devon, the best for the 

 yoke. The second is lower, well formed, black, with little white, and good 

 milkers. 



8. The Alderney or more properly Guernsey, is small, mostly yelh-w, or 

 light red, with white about the face and limbs ; they have crumpled horns, and 

 till lately ill-shaped. The true breed is distinguished by a yellow colour within 

 the ears, at the root of the tail, and of the tuft at the end of it : they give e.x. 

 cellent milk and tine beef 



The races of France arc principally distinguished into two divisions 

 among both of which fine breeds are found. The first is commonly designat. 

 pd as Bwufs de himt cru, or those who are of middle or small stature ; with 

 a fierce look, thick hide, coarse hair, large dewlap, horns greenish or black ; 

 living in the mountainous departments formed of the ancient provinces o/ 

 Limousin, Saintonge, Angoumois, Marche, Berri, Gascony, Auvergne, 

 liourbonois, Charolois, and Burgundy. The others styled Bmufs de Nutitre. 

 Their stature is large or middle sized, head and body small, ears and miizsile 

 fine ; horns white, hide thin ; hair soft, and a-^pect kind : they fattt-n easily, 



1 Bufi'un, vol. xxiii. p. 73L 



