CHAPTER VII. 



The Chillingham Herd — Mentioned by Culley and Pennant — Bewick's Account 

 — Differences in these Statements— Brief Account of Chillingham — Lord 

 Tankerville's Account of the Herd — Rutimeyer's Opinion — Notice in 1689 

 corroborates Bewick as to Colour of the Ears — Further Particulars by Lord 

 Tankerville — Jesse's Statement that the Herd was once reduced to one Cow 

 in Calf incorrect — Mr. Hindmarsh's Account — Last published Account of 

 the Herd by " The Druid" in 1870. 



Among the wild herds now or formerly existing in 

 this country, that of Chillingham has long claimed 

 the foremost place. To this it seems entitled, if for 

 nothing else, at least for this — that it is the connecting 

 link between the wild cattle of England and those o^ 

 Scotland, and retains, perhaps more than any other, the 

 type and character of an animal so celebrated in history 

 as Caledonia's wild bull. It has been, too, for a long 

 time much more prominently before the public than 

 other herds ; for which it is indebted principally to the 

 happy circumstance that Bewick, the prince of wood- 

 engravers, and no mean naturalist, illustrated his pages 

 with the picture of the wild bull of his native country, 

 and with an interesting description of it ; while, in later 

 years, Landseer himself passed many a leisure hour in 

 stuxlying and observing the Chillingham cattle in their 

 native haunts, and then immortalised them by trans- 

 ferring them life-like to his canvas. 



But the earliest historian of the Chillingham wild 

 cattle was Mr. Greorge Culley. Born in 1730, the soi. 



