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REVIEW — BREEDS OF THE DOMESTIC 
and with less adaptation of the arts of Asia than the modern 
Patagonians have copied from those of Europe. 
“ Egypt was not a wild country for wild horses : we have already 
seen when the domestic horse first appears there ; and surely it 
was not in Nubia that the elements of progressive civilization were 
taken, but from Asia, whence the people came, and to which 
alone they acknowledged affinity.” 
It is my intention, in the following month, again to refer to 
this highly interesting volume : there is much valuable matter 
contained in it — useful alike to the philosopher, the warrior, the 
sportsman, and the veterinarian. K. 
Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British 
Islands , consisting of a Series oj coloured lithographic Prints of 
the Horse, the Ox, the Sheep, the Goat, and the 
Hog. By David Low, Esq,, F,R.S.E. } 8cc. Parts 8 , 9, 
and 10. 
The eighth number commences with the Polled Suffolk 
Breed, better known by the name of the Suffolk Dun, from the 
once prevailing colour of the breed. They are bred in Suffolk, 
Norfolk, Cambridge, and part of Essex, and, when fattened, are 
known in Smithfield market by the name of “ home-breds.” 
They have no connexion with the Galloways, another polled breed, 
and with which they are sometimes confounded, but from whom 
they essentially differ in the thinness of the neck and shoulder, 
the smaller depth of the ribs, and therefore their less value for 
fattening. On the other hand, however, they have the faculty 
of yielding a far greater quantity than the Galloways, in pro- 
portion to their size and the meat which they consume. They 
are found in the greatest purity and numbers in the middle di- 
visions of Suffolk. They are larger and coarser about Ipswich, 
and towards the coast ; and in Cambridgeshire and Essex they 
have evidently degenerated. The grand principle with the 
farmer is the yielding an abundant quantity of milk, and of that 
quality which suits better the manufacture of butter than of 
cheese. The mixed purposes of the dairyman and the grazier 
have been neglected, or rather they have never been fairly 
answered. Even the Ayrshires, when brought to Suffolk, have 
failed. 
The next plate contains the Devon Bull. His native country 
is the northern slope of Devonshire, extending from Barnstaple, 
eastward, beyond the Exe. We could have wished that it 
had been the true Devon that had been here depicted, for hav- 
ing, many a time and oft, seen him in his native country, we 
