Class L OX. ^5 



that it is difficult to point out the original kind . 

 of these islands. Those which may be supposed 

 to have been purely British are far inferior in 

 size to those on the northern part of the Euro- 

 pean continent: the cattle of the highlands of 

 Scotland are exceedingly small, and many of 

 them, males as well as females, are hornless : the 

 Welsh runts are much larger : the black cattle 

 of Cornwall are of the same size with the last. 

 The large species that is now cultivated through 

 most parts of Great Britain is either entirely 

 of foreign extraction, or our own improved by 

 a cross with a foreign kind. The Lincolnshire 

 kind derive their size from the Holstein breed ; 

 and the large hornless cattle that are bred in 

 some parts of England came originally from 

 Poland, 



About two hundred and fifty years ago there Wild 

 was found in Scotland a wild race of cattle, 

 which were of a pure white color, and had (if 



Cattle. Sheep. 



1750 to 1758 73,331 623,091 



1759 1767 83,432 615,328 



1768 1776 89,362 627,805 ;, 



1777 1785 99,285 687,588 



1786 1794 108,075 707,456. 



It must also be obsen-ed, that, owing to the cultivation of a 

 larger breed, the weight of each animal is considerably more 

 than double what it was at the commencement of the last cen- 

 tury. Ed. 



Cattle. 



