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Castle, in Northumberland. Are of a milk-white 

 colour ; have black ears, muzzles and orbits ; horns 

 fine, and bending out ; slender legs ; very wild ; 

 and fly like deer at the sight of man ; generally on 

 full gallop; very fierce, and dangerous when wounded, 

 attacking their assailant with great fury. Never 

 approach the cattle yards but when compelled by 

 hunger in very severe weather ; always lie out ; their 

 hides on that account tougher, and more valued by 

 curriers than those of tame cattle. The carcase of 

 an ox of this kind weighs 38 stones English, of a 

 cow 28 stones." He then mentions the manes they 

 formerly had, and refers to Boethius, Pliny, and 

 Sibbald, adding : " Tame black cattle, in the Island 

 of Canay, have still their staring manes along the 

 top of their backs, which reach from the neck up 

 part of the tail." 



Though Pennant on neither of his visits to Hamil- 

 ton saw the cattle, it would appear that they were 

 still kept at Cadzow. In the case of both tours he 

 uses nearly the same expression : " I am told there 

 are still in it a few," which indicates a greatly 

 reduced herd, I take it; and indeed in the case of 

 his second tour, he seems so far as all that relates 

 to Hamilton is concerned to have contented himself 

 with much re-statement from his former narrative. 

 While his observation as to the Drumlanrig cattle is 

 definite, as to Cadzow his remark is wholly of a 

 hearsay character, and, even if accepted, indicates a 

 restricted herd. He published the 4th edition of 

 British Zoology in 1786, and mentions having seen the 

 cattle at Drumlanrig and Chillingham, but says 

 nothing of Hamilton. 



Bewick published his General History of Quadrupeds 

 in 1790. He treats fully of the Chillingham Cattle — 

 from Culley's Live Stock published 1786 — and gives a 

 spirited engraving of the Chillingham wild bull ; but 

 he does not mention Cadzow or Drumlanrig among 

 the places where he says they then survived. 

 " Numerous herds of them," he writes, " were kept at 



