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bodyis " — a very decided rudimentary mane, not so 

 large . and long, but as clearly marked as in the lion 

 himself. I then remembered that such also was the 

 character of the hair of the neck of the Chillingham 

 bull shot by the Prince of Wales, and that it was 

 similarly contrasted with that of the rest of the body ; 

 although, as the head and the skin of the body were 

 preserved separately, and I did not see them together, 

 the difference in character of the hair was not so easily 

 observed. Such, too, though seen at some distance, was 

 evidently the case with regard to the older bulls we saw 

 in the park ; the relatively larger amount of hair they 

 carried on their necks afforded greater opportunities for 

 the lodgment of the dirt they pawed up, and made 

 them of a deeper colour in that part. 



Most strikingly was this mane seen too, even yet 

 more plainly marked, in a wood engraving of a Chilling- 

 ham wild bull by the celebrated Bewick, the fidelity and 

 truth of whose delineations of animals admit of not the 

 slightest question. It was a small print, framed, and 

 hung in one of the bed-rooms, and bore upon it, printed 

 underneath, its own verification : " Thomas Bewick, 

 ISTewcastle-on-Tyne, 1789" — that is, eighty-six years 

 since. No one could give the most cursory glance at this 

 beautiful little print without being struck with the curly 

 mane, which is quite a remarkable feature of the grand 

 bull, full of wild grace and vigour, which is there 

 delineated. If the Chillingham bulls a century since 

 had manes like that, the description of Boethius cannot, 

 after all, be so much over-drawn ; for we should be led 

 to suppose that if the mane had been diminished some- 

 what in the time which elapsed between Bewick and 

 Landseer, much greater may have been its diminution 

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