40 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



some of it is quite uncultivated, and all of it unenclosed, 

 extends from the Danube to the Carpathians. It is 

 superbly watered by that river, and by the Theiss, the 

 Save, the Drave, and their tributaries. An immense 

 plain, it rises upwards from the Danube, by degrees, into 

 more hilly and mountainous regions of considerable 

 extent, clothed with a great amount of ancient forest as 

 it approaches its northern and western boundary, the 

 Carpathian mountains ; and in the year 1870 it con- 

 tained more than fifteen millions of cattle, almost all 

 of the same type. 



The characteristics of this grand race are uniform. 

 For, though divided into two branches, they are con- 

 sidered both equally pure. In the first the coat is 

 perfectly white, and this colour is generally preferred ; 

 in the second, the white is tinted in certain parts of the 

 body with gvey, or ash-grey. In other respects these 

 two varieties are identical, and the difference has been 

 maintained only by selection. Count Osaky took great 

 pains to perfect the white race, and his breed is generally 

 known by his name or by that of his place, Kaormaosd, 

 in the county of Bihar ; the grey breed is often called 

 Kis-jenoc, from a domain of that name in the county of 

 Arad, where it was much cultivated. " The finest race 

 of Hungarian cattle now to be seen is at the Imperial 

 estate of Merbhegyes, in Lower Hungary, where a fine 

 breeding herd of the Osaky kind is maintained. Splendid 

 cattle are also to be seen on the shores of the Platten 

 See, upon the estates of Count Festetics." 



" The Hungarian ox is undoubtedly unrivalled for 

 hardihood, speed, strength, and durability. He is 

 capable of subsisting and working upon a worse quality 

 of fodder than any other race. Poor pasturage in 



