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ancient type in form, colour, and other characteristics, 

 and this type, though so peculiar and distinct, still 

 quite unaltered. We return home, and we find in 

 the Chillingham, the Chartley, the Hamilton, and in 

 others of our wild herds, the same colour, the same 

 peculiarities of markings, the same distinctiveness of 

 form and points ; everything the same, except that ours 

 (owing to their less free and natural life) are, as Eiiti- 

 meyer after a careful osteological examination has 

 remarked, a diminished copy of some of these kindred 

 races. Surely we have gone far towards showing that 

 both are aboriginal ; in colour, as in other respects, 

 lineal representatives, as tradition believes them both 

 to be, of one common ancestor, and that ancestor the 

 ancient Urus. 



