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other part of this He of Albion, as is well knowen." 

 This doubtless means that a herd of the same extent, 

 living in a considerable forest, was not to be found, 

 and does not at all imply that no other herds of 

 similar cattle existed elsewhere. The Cumbernauld 

 cattle did not then, however, become extinct. When 

 they did so it is impossible definitely to say, though 

 the beginning of last century may be considered as 

 an approximation to the date. 



Sir Robert Sibbald, in his Scotia Illustrata (1684) 

 quotes certain references as to the white cattle 

 and the bison, and adds: "Quae quidem ab historicis 

 nostris petita sunt, sed confirmatione egent. In 

 pluribus locis montanse partis Scotise reperiuntur 

 quidem boves f eri, albi quoque : sed non ita truculenti 

 neque forma a domesticis differunt. An jubati bison- 

 tes nunc extent, nescio." [Such have indeed been 

 claimed by our historians, but lack confirmation. In 

 many places of the mountainous part of Scotland 

 wild oxen are indeed found, and white also ; but 

 they are not so savage as this, nor do they differ in 

 form from domestic cattle. Whether maned bisons 

 may now be extant, I do not know.] Sibbald does not 

 give any special localities for the white cattle ; but 

 of the forests in southern Scotland he says : " Cele- 

 briores sunt Hamiltonia; Kalendaria, prope Varium 

 Sacellum ; Torwood, prope Sterlinum." [The more 

 celebrated are Hamilton ; Callendar, near Falkirk ; 

 Torwood, near Stirling.] Sibbald, we thus perceive, 

 more than two centuries ago, held that these forest 

 cattle did not differ from domestic ones, and were 

 not so savage as represented, and states further 

 that he knows nothing of maned bisons. 



Of the early history of the Cadzow herd we know 

 nothing definite. We do not even know when the 

 forest was first enclosed. There is some probability 

 that Cadzow was a hunting seat of the ancient 

 British Kings of Strathclyde, and that the name is 

 to be traced to their language. From a very remote 

 antiquity it was undoubtedly the property of the 



