Class I. O X. tj 



Frequent mention is made of our favage cattle 

 by hiftorians. One relates that Robert Bruce was 

 (in chacing thefe animals) preferved from the rage 

 of a wild Bull by the intrepidity of one of his cour- 

 tiers, from which he and his lineage acquired 

 the mtuQ of Turn- Bull. I'ltZ'Supben^ names ihtk 

 animals (Uri-Sylveftres) among thofe that harbored 

 in the great foreft that in his time lay adjacent to 

 London. Another enumerates among the provifions 

 at the great feaft of Nevil f archbifhop of I'orky 

 fix wild Bulls ; and Sibbald afTures us that in his 

 days a wild and white fpecies was found in the 

 mountains of Scotland^ but agreeing in form with 

 the common fort. I believe thefe to have been the 

 Bifontes jubati of P//;^y found then in Germany^ and 

 might have been common to' the continent and 

 our ifland : the lofs of their favage vigor by con- 

 finement might occafion fome change in the external 

 appearance, as is frequent with wild animals de- 

 prived of liberty •, and to that we may afcribe their 

 lofs of mane. The Urus of the Hercynian foreft de- 

 fcribed by Cafar^ book VI. was of this kind, the 

 fame which is called by the modern Gerynans^ Au- 

 rochs^ i. e. Bos fylveftris :j:. 



The ox is the only horned animal in thefe iflands 



* A Monk who lived in the reign of Henry II. and wrote 

 a Hiftory of London, preferved in heland^s iiin. VIJI. 

 •f Leland's Colled anea, vi. 

 X Gefner ^ad. 144.. In Fitz-Stepheny Urus is printed Ur/us. 



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