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Lecture VIThe Chief and the LandThe Brehon law-tracts strongly suggest that, among the thingswhich we in modern times have most forgotten, is the importanceof horned cattle, not merely in the infancy of society, but at aperiod when it had made some considerable advance towardsmaturity It is scarcely possible to turn over a page withoutfinding some allusion to beeves, to bulls, cows, heifers, andcalves. Horses appear, sheep, swine, and dogs; and bees, theproducers of the greatest of primitive luxuries, have a place...