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the fields near, a very unusual number of white cattle, 

 the result, probably, of the former use of the wild bulls. 

 Whitton also said that whatever cows were put to 

 the white bulls, the calves came almost invariably the 

 colour of their sires: the only instance he remembered 

 to the contrary being that on one occasion a dark- 

 coloured cow produced a spotted calf. Thus were 

 singularly confirmed at Chartley two of the facts 

 which Bewick relates with regard to Chillingham — 

 the existence of the custom and the prepotency of 

 the white sire. 



The cattle here have suffered much from the foot-and- 

 mouth complaint, but they have fortunately escaped the 

 rinderpest. Their noble owner takes great interest in 

 them, and even wished to re-introduce the wild swine ; 

 for which purpose he imported a wild boar and sow. The 

 former unluckily died, and the sow, a genuine specimen 

 of the Sus scrofa, is still kept ; she is said to be as clever 

 as a terrier at killing rats, rabbits, &c. 



I add here Mr. Chandos-Pole-Grell's and Mr. 

 Thornton's remarks on the Chartley cattle, thereby 

 running the risk of some recapitulation. Yet on some 

 points they have enlarged more than I have done; and 

 in the present state of these valuable wild cattle, so 

 small now in number, I should not feel justified in 

 omitting to give the opinions of two such authorities. 

 They are singularly confirmatory of my own, though 

 all these three accounts were written quite independ- 

 ently of each other. The followiDg observations of 

 Mr. Chandos-Pole-Grell refer to his first visit, prior to 

 either of mine : — 



" In the autumn of 1873 I drove to Chartley Park, 

 to inspect the herd of white cattle in the possession of 



