WILD WHITE CATTLE. 229 
*Capzow CASTLE, LANARKSHIRE, the seat of the 
Duke of Hamilton, with its park, originally formed 
part of the great Caledonian Forest, wherein King 
Robert Bruce, according to tradition, hunted the wild 
bull in 1320, and where, two centuries later (namely 
in 1500), James LV. of Scotland indulged in the same 
wild sport. This park has from time immemorial 
contained a herd of wild white cattle, which has been 
frequently described, and which still exists.* Sir 
Walter Scott has immortalized these cattle in his 
ballad of ‘ Cadyow Castle” :— 
** Michtiest of all the beasts of chase 
That roam in woody Caledon, 
Crashing the forest in his race, 
The mountain bull comes thundering on. 
* Fierce, on the hunter’s quiver’d hand, 
He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, 
Spurns with black hoof and horn the sand, 
And tosses high his mane of snow.” 
He is in error, however, when he states that the 
Cadzow cattle were extirpated for their ferocity 
about 1769.¢ In all probability he derived this im- 
pression from a statement to that effect in the “ Old 
Statistical Account of Scotland,” vol. 1. p. 180 ; i. 208. 
As compared with those kept at Chillingham, the 
animals in this herd differ in having the inside of the 
ears black instead of red, and the fore part of the 
* One of the best accounts of this herd is that published by Jesse, 
who received it from a Mr. Brown, chamberlain to the Duke of 
Hamilton. 
+ “Tay of the Last Minstrel,” 8vo, 1809, notes, p. 40. See also 
Stuart’s “ Lay of the Deer Forest,” vol. i. p. 225. 
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