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ber of points constitutes a royal stag of the present day, these 

 antlers indicate the superior developement which an unen- 

 closed forest in those early days enabled its wild denizens 

 to attain. 



Near the same situation was found a single horn of the 

 Bos TJrus, which is one of the few remains of that aboriginal 

 ox found east of Linton Moss and north of Yorkshire ; 

 where in the valley of the Humber it and the Mammoth 

 have been frequently found. The Rev. John Storer, in his 

 valuable work on the Wild Cattle of Great Britain, recently 

 published, describes a visit he had paid to Middleton Hall 

 in 1874, during a lengthened tour I was then making. He 

 says, "Between Chillingham and Wooler we drove to Middle- 

 ton Hall at the end of the old Caledonian Forest, where lies 

 the extensive Bog or Moss of Cresswell. We were shown 

 some of the remains preserved at Middleton Hall, but I 

 much regret that in consequence of Mr Hughes's absence 

 from home, nor subsequently at Wooler, could I discover 

 whether the remains of the Bos have ever been found there ; 

 but my informants thought not. It is much to be desired 

 that this bog, and perhaps Robin Hood's Bog in Chillingham 

 Park, should he more carefully examined ; and Lord Tanker- 

 ville informs me that in the case of Cresswell Moss this has 

 been thought of Probably the remains of the Bos primi- 

 genius lie buried there ; and not only his : perhaps those of 

 his descendants — the intermediate link between him and 

 the Chillingham bull — might be also found. The reliquiae 

 of the wild beasts that ranged the forest at the same time 

 having been exhumed, those of the ancient Caledonian wild 

 bull may yet be discovered, and the great probability is that, 

 as in the case of the red deer, they would indicate that the 

 Caledonian bull of those days was, though inferior in size to 

 the ancient Urus, a larger animal than the present Chilling- 

 ham ox, yet of the same type as both of them." 



I very much regret that a voyage to Australia and Amer- 

 ica denied me an interview with Mr Storer, and the pleasure 

 I should have felt in stating to him that a horn had been 

 found of an aboriginal type. Uncertain whether I had in 



