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lower sea-lying parts of the counties of Pembroke and 

 Carmarthen, in which last " Dynevwr " is situated ; on 

 the borders of the Bristol Channel; and also the extreme 

 northern parts of the country, on the coasts of the 

 Irish Sea, opposite to Anglesea, where was Aberfraw. 

 We have no reason to believe, from the historical 

 notices we have, that they occupied the intermediate, far 

 larger, and more mountainous part of Wales. On the 

 contrary, the smaller black breed, the native cattle of 

 Wales, possessed the country as a whole, and has finally 

 exterminated the others. In South Wales it is remark- 

 able that the white cattle seem to have been primarily 

 derived from the neighbourhood of its most westerly 

 point; there they held their ground the longest, especially 

 in the country round Pembroke, Haverfordwest, and 

 Milford Haven, the extreme point of South Wales. It 

 is singular, too, that even now great osteologists, like 

 Rutimeyer, consider the Pembroke cattle descendants 

 of the Bosprimigeniits, while they class the other Welsh 

 cattle as representatives of the longifrons. The same is 

 true of the northern branch of this white race. The 

 kingdom of Aberfraw was close to Anglesea, and pro- 

 bably included it, and the cattle of Anglesea were more 

 nearly allied to, and more closely resembled, those of 

 Pembroke than any others in Wales. One of two things 

 we must, I think, suppose : either these white domes- 

 ticated cattle found their way into Wales by the cele- 

 brated port of Milford Haven, used in every age as a 

 port of importation, and by the ports of North Wales ; 

 or they are connected with British Druidism, whose last 

 strongholds were Pembrokeshire and Anglesea ; or they 

 owe their origin to both causes combined. One thing 

 seems to me most apparent : that they were not derived 



