GULLET, PENNANT, AND BEWICK. 145 



of a gentleman* of good landed estate at Denton-on- 

 Tees, in the county of Durham, and the friend both of 

 Arthur Young and Bakewell, he is said to have been, 

 together with his brother Matthew, the greatest of 

 " agricultural improvers " in the North. He was joint 

 author with John Bailey (who had been steward at 

 Chillingham) of the "Agricultural Surveys of North- 

 umberland and Cumberland," published by the Board 

 of Agriculture. But it was in his clever work on 

 " Live Stock," published in 1786, that he gave the first 

 account of any importance that the public ever had of 

 the Chillingham herd, and which has ever since done 

 duty as their history. f 



Pennant, the great naturalist, published about the 

 same time his " British Zoology," and mentions | 

 "having seen in the woods of Drumlanrig, in North 

 Britain, and in the park belonging to Chillingham 

 Castle, in Northumberland, herds of cattle derived from 

 the savage breed," "white cattle with black muzzles 

 and ears, their horns fine and with a bold and elegant 

 bend." The keeper at Chillingham informed him that 

 the weight of the ox was thirty-eight stone, and of 

 the cow twenty- eight. 



Thomas Bewick, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, followed by 

 publishing, in 1790, his " General History of Quadru- 

 peds," a book which went through several editions, and 

 which contained a most spirited engraving of the Chil- 

 lingham wild bull. His description of the cattle is 



* His mother was Eleanor, daughter of Edward Surtees, Esq., of 

 Mainforth, a well-known family, which produced the historian of the 

 County of Durham. 



f Culley's account may be found at pages 8 and 9 of Youatt's work 

 on " Cattle." 



t Yol. i., p. 18, 4th edition, 1786. 



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