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Excerpt from Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 3
Of the cattle 1n this country, the short horned Dutch or Holdernefs breed have also very short and smooth hair, though it is very thinly set upbwthe body. The Lancashire long-horned breed have longer and softer hair, gentlywaved. Some breeds of Highland cattle have hair still longer, softer, and closer than these: I'have'seen a variety of the Highland breed with a mane which became pretty long towards the head, with'a tuft between the horns that sometimes nearly covered the eyes, which gave it a very fierce look and savage appearance.' I have also seen another variety of Highland cattle, whose hair was of a pale lead co lour, most beautiful to look at and which was al ways'soft'and glofsy 'as silk. I have seen these in several different places; but every where the pile of the coat of this breed of -cattle exhibited the same gldfsy silky appearance wherever its native colour ap peared undebased by 'nu admixture with any other breed.
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