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IV. Particulars of a fact, nearly similar to that related by Lord 
Morton, communicated to the President, in a letter from 
Daniel Giles, Esq. 
Read November 23, 1820. 
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In answer to your enquiries, I will now give the best account 
I can of my sow and her produce. 
She was one of a well known black and white breed of 
Mr. Western, the Member for Essex. About ten years 
since I put her to a boar of the wild breed, and of a deep 
chesnut colour, which I had just received from Hatfield House, 
and which was soon afterwards drowned by accident. The 
pigs produced (which were her first litter) partook in ap- 
pearance of both boar and sow, but in some the chesnut co- 
lour of the boar strongly prevailed. 
The sow was afterwards put to a boar of Mr. Western’s 
breed (the wild boar having been long dead). The produce 
was a litter of pigs, some of which we observed, with much 
surprize, to be stained and clearly marked with the ches- 
nut colour which had prevailed in the former litter. 
This sow had afterwards another litter of pigs by a boar 
of Mr. Western’s breed, and I think, and so does my bailiff, 
that some of these were also slightly marked with the ches- 
nut colour ; but though we noticed the recurrence with sur- 
prize, it is so long since, that our recollection is much less 
perfect than I wish it to be. 
