these cattle penetrated far inland. Tuke[1] informs us that Henry Peirse, of Bedale, had a large herd, and he publishes a representation of a "polled Teeswater cow" belonging to Richard Raisen, Bishopthorpe; but their headquarters were somewhere in the neighbourhood of Holderness. It is doubtful, however, if their numbers ever were large. Lawrence[2] describes them as having "the same qualities as the short-horned cattle, carrying vast substance, and some I have seen lately are of a great size, although in that particular, they are most conveniently various." Strickland[3] gives their colour: "This breed is distinctly marked by its colour, being variously blotched with large well-defined patches of deep red or clear black, in some families of dun or mouse-colour on a clean white ground; they are never brindled or mixed, and rarely of one uniform colour."
Durham.—There is evidence of both yellow and dun cattle in Durham in the eighteenth century. Writing in 1821 about a well-known Shorthorn cow which lived about 1777, Mr. Thomas Hutchinson says she was "a large yellow cow with some white. … She might, indeed, have been descended (for anything I know to the contrary) from the old woman's
- ↑ "Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire," 1800.
- ↑ "General Treatise on Cattle," etc., 1805, p. 71.
- ↑ "Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire," 1812.
