434 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW, 



APPENDIX III. 



In Bishop Leslie's [1526-1596] History of Scotland^ as translated 

 by Father Dalrymple (1596), and edited by Father Cody for the 

 Scottish Text Society in 1888, it is stated that at "Tor Wod " 

 [Caledonia silva] " in quhilke onlie, eftir the commoune speiking, 

 was the quhyte kye fund of quhilkes now restes verie few or nane." 



Bishop Leslie also refers to cows or cattle, which lived in a 

 semi-domesticated state, yet were sent " throuch all partes of the 

 realme" to be " sauld," as their flesh was of "a meruellous 

 sueitnes, of a wounderful tendirnes, and excellent dilegatnes of 

 taste." Perhaps these cattle were white in colour and are the 

 source of origin for our Scotch Park Cattle. Bishop Leslie, as 

 translated, writes : — " In the mountains of Aargyle, in Rosse 

 lykwyse, and sindrie vthiris places, ar fed ky, nocht tame, as in 

 vthiris partes, bot lyke wylde hartes, wandiring out of ordour, 

 and quhilkes, throuch a certane wyldnes of nature, flie the cum- 

 panie, or syght of men : as may be seine in winter, how deip saeuir 

 be the snawe, how lang saevir the frost ly, how scharpe or calde 

 how evir it be, thay nevir thair heid sett vndir the ruffe of ony 

 hous. Thair fleshe of a meruellous sueitnes, of a woundirful 

 tendirnes, and excellent dilegatnes of taste, far deceiues the 

 opiniounis of men, that nevir tasted thame : bot quhen thay ar 

 sodne thair fatt is sik, that aftir the manor of the fatt of vthir 

 ky, it freises nocht frahand and congeilis, bot certaine dayes 

 remanes vnfrossin lyke oyle. Bot quhen al of this sort ar mekle 

 commendet than cheiflie ar thay that out of Karrick [Latin 

 Carectonia] ar sent vnto vs. Thair herdis keipis the ky : bot the 

 oxen not, except ane with ilkie draue : for thay till the ground with 

 horses, quhen thir sorte, in the sumer tyme thairfor ar weil fed. 

 In wintir quhen thay ar throuch fatt, and throuch fatnes weil 

 bowdin [swollen], throuch all partes of the realme thay ar sent to 

 be sauld : and being slane, thay ar poudiret, or with salte ar 

 seasoned vnto the neist summer, to be keepet f rome corruptione 

 to thair commoune vse of daylie fude, as swyne fleshe is vset in 

 vthir cuntries, of quhilke our cuntrie peple hes lytle plesure." 



APPENDIX IV. 



Dr. Maclagan, in an interesting communication, favours me 

 with the following notes : — 



