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*Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, the seat of the 

 Duke of Hamilton, with its park, originally formed 

 part of the great Caledonian Forest, wherein King 

 Kobert Bruce, according to tradition, hunted the wild 

 bull in 1320, and where, two centuries later (namely 

 in 1500), James IV. of Scotland indulged in the same 

 wild sport. This park lias 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": — 



" Mightiest of all the beasts of chase 

 That roam in woody Oaledon, 

 Crashing the forest in his race, 



The mountain bull comes thundering on. 



" Fierce, on the Hunter's quiverM 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 1769.1 In all probability he derived this im- 

 pression from a statement to that effect in the " Old 

 Statistical Account of Scotland," vol. i. p. 180; ii. 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. 



f "Lay of the Last Minstrel," 8vo, 1809, notes, p. 40. See also 

 Stuart's " Lay of the Deer Forest," vol. ii. p. 225. 



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