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which, according to the common opinion, renders them more agile and ſpirited than the Lanarkſhire kind, and fitter to make a quicker diſpatch on long journeys, eſpecially where the roads are not level. The weight of the draughts they can take is but very inconſiderable. The county does more than ſupply itſelf with horſes, there being about a fourteenth part of.the whole number annually ſold.

Cattle.--Many, if not:moßt-of the cattle reared in the county are of the Highland breed,-and-may literally be'cal- Jed black cattle; their colour being chiefly, black."Ihe co- jour of cattle is ſuppoſed to be in 2 great. part owing to the prevailing colour of. the more Kriking objeCts-of nature, which they are accuüſtorhed to ſee, eſpecially at-a certain'ſeaſon.-= The mountains and extehſive muirs in the- Highlands are moſtly covered with black coloured heath» and peat moſs- At certain ſeaſons of. the year, the uniformity of this black colouris broken by ſtripes and blotches of ſnow interſperſed 1 the brows of the mountains and tra&s-in the muirs, which, to cows in a certain ſate,-may-be-a powerful cauſe of ſtrip- ping and blotching„with white the calves they bring forth.--- In the more cultivated parts-of the iſland, eſpecially. where the ploughed land:g-0f a-red colour; which is the caſe in ma- ny places in the ſouth of Scotland,&Cc-the cattle.in the neighbourhood through length of- time will be of the'ſame hue.;'

But whether the colour adds any-peculiar quality. to the carcaſe or milk of a cow,'is not perhaps-well aſcertained. It is indeed''commonly"believed;, that-a black coloured cow 1s bardier and more eafily kept thän a brown-one; and that'a- gain 15 hardier than one of a whife colour.--But theſe cir- cumſtances maybe owing to otlier cauſes thari that of colour.

If we believe tlie following old adage,' ſtill retained in ſome parts of Lanarkſhire, it would appear that white footed

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