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hides — the hair, however, being straight and not curly ; 

 the ears white, but yellow inside ; noses clear, like those 

 of Devons in colour. The cows supplied the house with 

 milk ; they were regularly milked, but not kept in the 

 park, but on the opposite side of the river Kibble, on a 

 farm called Ellenthorpe, which Lord Eibblesdale had in 

 his own hands." Mr. Staniforth had a cow " got by a 

 Gisburne bull from one of the tenant's cows ; she was 

 white, or nearly white, and a good fair milker. 



"About 1834, the Rev. Henry Berry, one of the 

 best judges and breeders of cattle, took Mr. Staniforth's 

 duty for a few weeks, and expressed his surprise that 

 these cattle were so much better in form and quality 

 than he had expected to have seen." A gentleman who 

 saw them about thirty years since says : — " There were 

 then about ten ; they came galloping up to the herds- 

 man, but did not seem more than half-wild." 



Through the kindness of Mr. Assheton, of Down- 

 ham Hall, near Clitheroe, the male representative 

 of the ancient family to whom these wild cattle for- 

 merly belonged, who bas afforded me most valuable 

 assistance, I have had forwarded to me three photo- 

 graphs of the three last of the Grisburne cattle, taken 

 from life. They belong to Mr. Dixon Robinson, of 

 Clitheroe Castle. Like most photographs of cattle 

 taken from life, they distort their subject, and are there- 

 fore not suitable for illustration. They are the last 

 bull, the last cow and calf, and the three together. The 

 cattle had then — as might indeed have been expected — 

 much degenerated in size ; but they are striking animals, 

 preserving the old- type — short-legged, thick and deep, 

 strong-boned and strong-limbed, and very heavy-fleshed. 

 So far as can be judged from a photograph, I should say 



