6 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



since passed by the generic name of English. The ally 

 became the conqueror, and ruthlessly extirpated the en- 

 feebled Celts . ' ' Everything Koman, everything Christian, 

 everything Celtic was the object of their hate;" * " in the 

 conquered districts the Brit- Welsh (i.e., the Romano 

 Celts) were either exterminated or enslaved." " The 

 English invaders came over, with their wives and chil- 

 dren and household stuff: " nor only with their families 

 and goods, but, as Mr. Boyd Dawkins has ably shown, 

 with their cattle also ; and these, supplemented by those 

 of the Danes who followed, have ever since remained the 

 cattle of our eastern and northern counties, where the 

 Continental tribes landed in the greatest numbers. These 

 were of the Bos urus type, though probably somewhat 

 crossed. The Bos longifrons, the small Celtic ox, was 

 driven, with his master the Celt, to remote and inac- 

 cessible parts which the English could not reach ; and 

 naturalists trace in the Highland kyloe and in the Welsh 

 cattle (the Pembroke, however, being often excepted) 

 its descendants. Youatt adds to these the Devon and 

 the Sussex. In the former case, the deer-like form and 

 extreme fineness of bone of the Devons ; their locality 

 in the west, where many of the Brit-Welsh found a 

 refuge ; and the circumstance that a black race of semi- 

 wild cattle long held its ground in Cornwall, render the 

 supposition to a certain extent probable. And in the 

 Sussex cattle a considerable resemblance may be traced 

 to the Devon ; but their greater size and substance, and 

 stronger, not to say coarser bone, clearly indicate that, 

 if originally of the same sort, they have been modified 

 by crosses with a much larger race. This appears to have 

 been also the case with some of the Devons themselves. 



* Boyd Dawkins : " Cave Hunting," chap, iii., p. 108. 



