HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE HOLSTEIN, OR DUTCH BREED. 



HAS been introduced with great success, and is 

 now the prevailing stock in all the counties on the 

 eastern coast of this kingdom. In good pastures, 

 cattle of this kind grow to a great size;* and the 

 cows yield a greater abundance of milk than those 

 of almost any other kind. 



* An Ox, fed by Mr. Edward Hall, of Whitley, in Northumber- 

 land, and killed in March, 1789, when seven years old, measured, 

 from the head to the rump, nine feet eight inches and a half; the 



