216 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Szpr., 1897. 
The Celtic characteristics of those New South Wales cattle may have been 
derived from the cattle imported in large numbers from South America of 
Spanish descent. If this theory of the Devon and other British Celtic herds 
holds good, it must in a great measure apply to Spanish cattle; Spain having 
had just the same experience and contact with Phoonician colonists and traders 
as Cornwall. The antipathy displayed on the first contact of Saxon and Celt, 
together with the inaccessible nature of the mountainous country to which the 
Celts withdrew themselves and their cattle, may have had a tendency to secure 
a greater purity to the British Celts of the type and qualities imparted through 
long ages of scientific breeding. Still, we would expect some trace of this 
common origin in the Spanish cattle, however modified it may have become by 
a possibly greater admixture of blood from cattle of a different origin. 
Comparing the Saxon and Celtic tpyes, we at once realise a vast difference, 
but it is only in view of comparatively recent discoveries and sources of know- 
ledge that we are able to apprehend the immense time that must have elapsed 
since the wild white cattle of Europe (the evident origin of Saxon types) and 
the wild black cattle of Africa (as evidently the origin of the Egyptian reds) 
first branched off from some primeval ancestor. 
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