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peditiou was repeated, and the English army penetrated into the 

 centre of France, plundering the country of their cattle, sheep, 

 horses and swine. 



No less than 14,000 head of neat cattle, and 14,000 sheep, and 

 great numbers of horses, were plundered from the French people, 

 and brought into the south part of England along the coast of the 

 English Channel. These cattle were brought from the depart- 

 ments of Brittany, Anjou, Maine, Normandy and Picardy, in 

 France, and disposed of in England to the English farmers and 

 crossed on the English cattle. 



Cattle from the southern and western coast of France and Bel- 

 gium, have always been known under the denomination of Alder- 

 ney cattle, and have been much crossed on the English native 

 stock. 



5. The white Chillingham Park cattle are supposed to be an 

 orif'inal race in England, but this type is found in India and in 

 various parts of Europe, and was the favorite ox of the ancient 

 Romans, even before the days of the Casars. These cattle in 

 Eno-land were earliest known to have existed in Lancastershire; 

 and the waste lands in Craven, in Yorkshire were formerly ranges 

 for these white cattle; so also the highlands in England, next to 

 the mountains in Wales. The favorite animal of this race is a 

 pure white, with red inside of its ears, and small red spots about 



the head. 



6. The Durhams and the old Shorthorns and Yorkshire cattle 

 are said to have been imported into England from the continent 

 at an early day. These cattle have been the stock upon which 

 the improved Durham or Short-horns have been raised by a cross 

 on the Red Galloways. The Tees water cattle in Durham and 

 Yorkshire are descendants of this stock. They are all known at 

 this day as Short-horns. 



Scotch Cattle. 

 The Scotch cattle are of a mixed race. Many are black and 

 hornless. Some are white, which appear to be the same stock as 

 those of Chillingham Park, in England. The mountains of Scot- 

 land were originally a nursery of a race of black cattle, of mild 

 aspect, beautiful symmetry, vigorous, hardy, patient of hunger 



