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true of the cattle of the steppes is true also of those of 

 the Crimea, of Volhynia, Podolia, Moldavia, Bessarabia, 

 and Wallachia. In all these extensive regions the cattle 

 still preserve the grand characteristics of the race of the 

 steppes, though in some cases slightly modified. Es- 

 pecially they retain its ancient colour ; and their 

 likeness to the Chillingham cattle is apparent even to an 

 ordinary observer. The Special Correspondent of the 

 Daily News, in an article on " Servia and the War," 

 published in that paper July 24th, 1876, remarks : — 

 " On the Morava valley road [Servia], although we found 

 no evidences of war, there was more traffic than we had 

 seen between Belgrade and Semendria. Long strings of 

 bullock carts were passed or met, drawn by white oxen 

 with black muzzles, the doubles t in all save ferocity, of 

 the Chillingham cattle." 



And now let me briefly recapitulate. We have seen 

 that the most select of the cattle of the ancients, and 

 those especially which they considered sacred and used 

 for the sacrifices of the gods, were white. In the best 

 authenticated instance which remains to us, the Roman 

 importations from Thrace, I have endeavoured to show 

 that these white Grrseco- Roman cattle, coming from the 

 country of the Urus, were of the Urus type, and of the 

 same character and colour as his present descendants in 

 the same parts. We then sought for traces of the wild 

 bull among: the modern domestic races of Western 

 Continental Europe. The search was fruitless; war, 

 pestilence, repeated crossings, and the admixture of 

 races had, to a great extent, obliterated his vestiges. 

 But turning eastwards, we there found numerous half- 

 wild races, which in the opinion of naturalists, of eco- 

 nomic writers, and of popular tradition, are of the 



