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neighbourhood as elsewhere in the following well-known 

 lines : — 



" Mightiest of all the beasts of chase 

 That roam in woody Caledon, 

 Crashing the forest in his race, 



The mountain hull comes thundering on. 



" Fierce, on the hunter's quiyer'd band, 

 He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, 

 Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand, 

 And tosses high his mane of snow." * 



" The chase in which they browse " (I quote from 

 Mr. Brown) " was formerly a park or forest attached 

 to the royal chase of Cadzow, where the ancient British 

 kings of Strathclyde, and subsequently the kings of 

 Scotland, used frequently to reside and hold their 

 courts." "As compared with those kept at Chilling- 

 ham Park, Northumberland, by Lord Tankerville, they 

 are larger and more robust in the general form of 

 their bodies, and their markings are very different. 

 In the Tankerville breed the colour is invariably white, 

 muzzle black, the whole of the inside of the ear and 

 about one-third the outside, from the tips downwards, 

 red. The horns are very fine, white, with black tips ; 

 and the head and legs are slender and elegant. In 

 the Hamilton Urus the body is dun-white, the inside 

 of the ears, the muzzle, and the hoofs black, and 

 the fore part of leg, from the knee downwards, mottled 

 with black. The cows seldom have horns ; their bodies 

 are thick and short ; their limbs are stouter and their 

 heads much rounder than in the Tankerville breed. 

 The inside or roof of the mouth is black, or spotted 

 with black. The tongue is black, and generally tipped 

 with black. It is somewhat larger in proportion than 



* " Cadzow Castle" : Sir Walter Scott. 



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