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necessarily led to the attention for these requisites 
which hare now been brought to such perfection. In 
the same manner which we pursued when noticing the 
natural history of the sheep, we have now selected 
two of the British breeds for illustration, as much 
contrasted as possible ; the others we shall very short- 
ly notice under them. About ten varieties are ge- 
nerally noticed, but there are more than double the 
number known locally, either by the name of the 
district or their original proprietors. The long- 
horned, the middle-horned, the short-horned, the 
Welsh breed, the Suffolk duns, Galloway polled 
breed. Highland or Kyloe breed. Lowland or Fife- 
shire breed, Alderney breed, and the wild breed, are 
those enumerated by Dickson. 
But before proceeding to these details, we shall in 
this place give some account of the barbarous though 
stining and heroic encounters of the Moors, Spa- 
niards, and Romans in their bull-fights, widely con- 
trasted as they are from the veneration in which we 
have just mentioned that other nations have held the 
animals at present under our notice. We have seen 
the natives of Egypt and of the East deifying these 
quadrupeds ; and useful and peaceful as they are when 
tinmolested, we must exhibit them tormented in a 
t^ariety of ways, and with a cruelty which to our 
present habits seems almost incredible. The origin 
af bull-baiting is supposed to be derived from the 
Moors, and we cannot lay before our readers a more 
interesting account of these extraordinary exhibitions, 
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