. The wild white cattle of Great Britain. An account of their origin, history, and present state. rofessor measured one noble Mariahof ox,eight years old, whose girth behind the shoulders was8 ft. 9 in., and height at the withers 5 ft. 8 in., andwhose girth, he believed, was greater than any lean oxhe ever heard of. The Podolian race, which is distri-buted over the greater part of Gralicia, though shorterin stature, much resembles the Hungarian, and pro-bably resulted from crossing this animal with an ancientrace indigenous to Galicia, or it may be more nearlyrelated to the cattle of the stepp
. The wild white cattle of Great Britain. An account of their origin, history, and present state. rofessor measured one noble Mariahof ox,eight years old, whose girth behind the shoulders was8 ft. 9 in., and height at the withers 5 ft. 8 in., andwhose girth, he believed, was greater than any lean oxhe ever heard of. The Podolian race, which is distri-buted over the greater part of Gralicia, though shorterin stature, much resembles the Hungarian, and pro-bably resulted from crossing this animal with an ancientrace indigenous to Galicia, or it may be more nearlyrelated to the cattle of the steppes. The colour isgenerally white or silver-grey, with variations passinginto dark grey. Nearly 75 per cent, of the oxenslaughtered at Vienna belong to this race. The meatis very much esteemed, and is distinguished for itstenderness and agreeable flavour. But leaving the Hungarian oxen and their congeners,and passing over the Carpathians, in whose deep glensand wild mountain ranges a much smaller cow of thesame type, but crossed with other sorts, adapts itself to 7^::[r: K]:^&W^XS^] fflBm-. .:?: ; ^ ?;..,;;.;i ; . .!?:U CATTLE OF THE RUSSIAN STEPPES. 47 its scanty fare, we come to that wonderful country, thegreat Russian steppe, the ancient Scythia and , too, as in Hungary, represented by its modernsemi-wild descendants, the Bos urus still holds itsown ; for the Cow of the Russian Steppes nearly resemblesboth in character and in colour the Hungarian breed andour own white wild forest breed, as may be seen by theillustration from MM. Moll and Gayots work. It wasoriginally given in the work of M. Demidoff, entitled,Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale en 1841. It waspainted from life by Raffet, has been examined byscientific men, and by veterinary and other Russianofficers, who had occasion to see the cattle of the steppes,and all have pronounced it very exact. In that enormous territory there is great uniformityof colour. The calf, as in Hungary, is of a darkercolour th
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