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 maner 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 frome 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 ;— 

