a collective word, which signifies the four-footed animals, which serve either for tilling the ground, or for food to men. They are distinguished into large, or black cattle; and into small cattle; of the former are horses, bulls, oxen, cows, and even calves and heifers; amongst the latter are rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats, kids, &c. Cattle are the chief stock of a farm; they who deal in cattle are styled graziers.

CATTERTHUN, a remarkable Caledonian post, a few miles north of the town of Brechin in the county of Angus in Scotland. Mr Pennant describes it as of uncommon CATZ

uncommon strength. "It is (says he) of an oval form, made of a stupendous dike of loose white stones, whose convexity, from the base within to that without, is 122 feet. On the outside a hollow, made by the deposition of the stones, surrounds the whole. Round the base is a deep ditch, and below that about 100 yards, are vestiges of another, that went round the hill. The area within the flint mound is flat; the axis or length of the oval, is 436 feet, the transverse diameter 200. Near the east tide is the foundation of a rectangular building; and on most parts are the foundations of others small and circular: all which had once their superstructures, the shelter of the possessors of the post: there is also a hollow, now almost filled with stones, the well of the place." There is another fortification, but of inferior strength, in the neighbourhood. It is called the Brown Catterburn, from the colour of the ramparts which are composed only of earth. It is of a circular form, and consists of various concentric dikes. On one side of this rises a small rill, which, running down the hill, has formed a deep gully. From the side of the fortress is another rampart, which extends parallel to the rill, and then reverts, forming an additional post or retreat. The meaning of the word Catterburn is Camp-town; and Mr Pennant thinks these might probably be the posts occupied by the Caledonians before their engagement at the foot of the Grampian Mountains with the celebrated Agricola. See (History of) Scotland.