"This is a sort which has sometimes the title of _horned crocks_. The
writer on live stock distinguishes the breed as having a large head and
eyes; Roman nose; wide nostrils; horns bending down the cheeks; color
all white; wide bosom; deep, greyhound breast; back rather straight;
carcass substantial; legs short; bone coarse; fine middle wool, very
thin on the belly, which is sometimes bare. He supposes, with Culley,
that the basis of this breed is doubtless the Dorsets, enlarged by some
long-wooled cross; but how the horns came to take a direction so
contrary, is not easy, he thinks, to conjecture; he has sometimes
imagined it must be the result of some foreign, probably Tartarian
cross.