Crass I. O- X. 
Frequent mention is made of our favage cattle 
by hiftorians. One relates that Robert Bruce was 
(in chacing thefe animals) preferved from the rage 
of a wild Bull by the intrepidity of one of his cour- 
tiers, from which he and his lineage acquired 
the name of Turn-Bull. Fitz-Stepben* names thefe 
animals (Uri-Sylveftres) among thofe that harbored 
in the great foreft that in his time lay adjacent to 
London. Another enumerates among the provifions 
at the great feaft of Nevil + archbifhop of York, 
fix wild Bulls; and Szdda/ld affures us that in his 
days a wild and white fpecies was found in the 
mountains of Scotland, but agreeing in form with 
the common fort. I believe thefe to have been the 
Bifontes jubati of Pliny found then in Germany, and 
might have been common to the continent and 
our ifland: the lofs of their favage vigor by con- 
finement might occafion fome change in the external 
appearance, as is frequent with wild animals de- 
prived of liberty; and to that we may afcribe their 
lofsof mane. The Urus of the Hercynian foreft de- 
{eribed by Czfar, book VI. was of this kind, the 
fame which is called by the modern Germans, Au- 
rochs,1. €. Bos fylveftris f. 
The ox is the only horned animal in thefe iflands 
* A Monk who lived in the reign of Henry Il. and wrote 
a Hiftory of London, preferved in Leland’s itin. VIII. 
4 Leland’s Colle&anea. vi. 
1 Gefner Quad. 144. In Fitz-Stephen, Urus is printed Ur/us. 
C4 that 
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