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VOLUME XXV— No. 7. 
iNEW-YORK, JULY, 1866. 
NEW SERIES— No. 334. 
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HEAD OF 4tii DUCHESS OF THORNDALE. — Drawn prom Life by Edwin Forbes, for the AmeriO(Ut Agmcultukist. 
4th Duchess of Thorndale. bred and owned by Samttel Thoi-ne. of Thomdale, Dachess County, N. T.-Red; calved July 10th, 1S59; Got by 3d Grand Duke (1596n.— Dam Duchess ( — ) 
by Duke of Gloster (1138-3) •, g dam Duchess 66th by 4th Duke of York (10167) ; gr g dam Duchess 35th by 4th Duke of Northumberland (3S49) ; gr gr g dam Duchess 38th by Norfolk (53T7) ; 
gr gr gr g dam Duchesc 33d by Belvedere (1706) ; gr gr gr gr g dam Duchess 19th by 2d Hubback (1423) ; gr gr gr gr gr g dam Duchess 15th by the Earl (046) ; gr gr gr gr gr gi- g dam Duchess 
4th by Ketton 2d (710) ; gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam Duchess 1st by Comet (155) ; gr gr gr gr gr gr gr er g dam by Favorite (252) ; gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by Daisy Bull (186) , gr gr gr 
gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by Favorite (252) ; gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by Hubback (319) ; gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by J Brown's Bed Bull (97). 
lu this country vre know very little about 
long lines of ancestry among our citizens, and 
ihough now and then some old family can 
trace its descent back five or six generations, 
not one man in a hundred can tell the names of 
his great grandfathers. This may give interest 
to the fact that the beautiful cow whose head is 
faithfully presented above, is the 10th in a line 
of " Duchesses," and that her pedigree on the 
side of her dam may be traced back uninter- 
ruptedly 15 generations. They are an honored 
ancestry too, and worthful, as we shall show. 
4th Duchess of Thorndale is of a prevailingly 
red color of almost faultless, and for her large 
size, delicate proportions ; her head, small and 
boney ; eyes, full and very prominent, and the 
jaws, remarkably clean. Her coat is like 
broadcloth, and her skin pliable and soft as 
buckskin. To say nothing of the first Duchess, 
Mr. Ceiling's White Bull, Favorite, the Hub- 
backs, and the Dukes of Northumberland, her 
rich heritage of blood is shown by the fact that 
her sire, 2d Grand Duke, cost 1000 Guineas in 
England ; her Grand Sire, Duke of Gloster, 650 
Gs. ; her Grand-dam, Duchess 66, sold for 700 
Gs. at the Ducie Sale, and her (66th's) sire at the 
same sale sold for 500 Gs. (These are Guineas, 
not Pounds Sterling, remember.) Her son, 6tli 
Duke of Thorndale, by 3d Duke (37749), now 4 
years old, is emphatically the finest bull we ever 
saw. She is herself the queen of the Thorndale 
herd, and, it is no more than fair to say, that 
no picture, however fine, can do her justice. 
