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portionabiy larger, and in that they have, in 

 general, but not always, horns,— of the mid- 

 dle fize, and moftly bent upward, — like thofe of 

 the Welfti cattle — but finer. 



In general appearance there is a (Irong re- 

 femblance (their horns apart) between the 

 Highland Scots and the black cattle of North- 

 Wales ; but with refpeft to flefli and fatting 

 quality, — the main objefts, — the companion is 

 greatly in favour of the Scotch breed ; which 

 the gentlemen of North-Wales are faid to fetch 

 annually out of Scotland, or to buy them up 

 at the Englifh fairs, to be fatted for their own 

 tables. 



The IJle of Skys appear to be only a variety 

 of the Highland bfeed ; contraded by foil, or 

 climature, or both. They are, in point of fize, 

 the loweft in the gradation. But with regard 

 to flefli, fatting, and growth while fatting, 

 they may be faid to fl;and foremofl:. I hav^ 

 known an Ifle of Sky Scot, bought at two years 

 and a half old for lefs than forty fliillings, reach, 

 in about twenty months, to forty-five ftone *. 



At that ageiheir "growth" in England is 

 afl:oni{hing ; owing, perhaps, not more to 



* But thi? was the head bullock of a lot of hajf a 

 Xcoxe, and Is, perhaps, a lingular inftancc* 



Z 4 .their 



