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cattle by historians. One relates that Robert 

 Bruce was (in chacing these animals) preserved 

 from the rage of a wild Bull by the intrepidity 

 of one of his courtiers, from which he and his 

 lineage acquired the name of Turn-Bull. 

 Fitz-Stephen* names these animals (Uri Syl- 

 vestres) among those that harbored in the great 

 forest that in his time lay adjacent to London. 

 Another enumerates among the provisions at 

 the great feast of Necil\ archbishop of York, 

 six wild Bulls ; and Sibbald assures us that in 

 his days a wild and white species was found in 

 the mountains of Scotland, but agreeing in form 

 with the common sort. Bishop Lessley says, 

 that in his time (1598), cattle in a wild state 

 were found in Sterling, Cwnmernald, and 

 Kincairn. I believe these to have been the 

 Bisontes jubati of Pliny found then in Ger- 

 many, and which might have been common to 

 the continent and our island : the loss of their 

 savage vigor by confinement might occasion 

 some change in the external appearance, as is 

 frequent with wild animals deprived of liberty ; 

 and to that we may ascribe their loss of mane. 

 The Urns of the Hercynian forest described by 



* A monk who lived in the reign of Henry II. and wrote a 

 History of London, preserved in Leland's It'm. vm. 

 \ Leland's Collectanea, vi. 



