Derivation of the Domestic Polled Breeds. 801 
even in part of the Suffolk, or any other polled race which were 
polled before they were, the position may be illustrated thus: To 
the name given to a certain garden weed, coltsfoot, whose flower 
appears before the leaves, hence called “the son before the father.” 
To the ideas expressed in the Rig-veda.' Indra is the principal 
god of the Veda, who made Heaven and Earth, and the account 
of whose origin is that he had “begotten his own father and 
mother from his own body.” “Indra begat his parents” is exactly 
the parallel of the claims of the Galloway. 
The above may be said to be all that is known at present in 
the best-informed quarters. I now am able to produce the last 
and most conclusive item of testimony to this already well-forged 
chain. This is derived from the “paleontology” of language; 
by the existence, in the good old times, of a word used in Suffolk 
to name the polled cattle pf the locality. That word was mooly, 
meaning a polled cow. It was in use, according to old English 
philologists, during and previous to 1750, as will be shown in the 
chapter on Philology. This will illustrate the value of philology 
as a source ofevidence. It occupies a similar and as exact a position 
as “the testimony of the rocks.” That the word was of Suffolk 
use in England and was a household word in those days is incon- 
testible. It is therefore curious to know that it seems extinct 
now, or unknown to such a widely informed student as Mr. G. 
Gilbert, for in answer to my query he informed me he was totally 
unaware of any local or provincial word used in the way indicated. 
The very near equivalents of the word, as in the Irish and Gaelic 
maol, and north of Scotland mooly, will be commented on again, 
and they suggest important reflections. 
The fact of the use of this word in these days in Suffolk is 
Proof sufficient of the great antiquity of the cattle the word 
described —an antiquity much greater than of a breed that never 
had any such cognomen —as the Galloway. 
But I offer another proof of the worth of this link of evidence 
as satisfying our requirements in that respect. Let us jump over 
to America, What do we find? That this same word mooly is in 
Bio ey of the Rig-veda. By H. W. Wallis. Published by 
India, lle Williams and Norgate, London. 
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