1 8 OX. Clafs I. 



lands oi Scotland are exceeding fmall, and many of 

 them, males as well as females, are hornlefs : the 

 lVeJJ/3 runts are much larger : the black cattle of Corn- 

 uiall are of the fame fize with the laft. The large 

 fpecies that is now cultivated through moft parts of 

 Great-Britain are either entirely of foreign extraction, 

 or our own improved by a crofs with the foreign 

 kind. The Lincolnjhire kind derive their fize from 

 the Holftein breed ; and the large hornlefs cattle that 

 are bred in fome parts of England come originally 

 from Poland. 



As to the wild cattle of Scotland, which Jonjion 

 mentions under the name of Bifon Scoticus^ and de- 

 fcribes as having the mane of a lion, and being en- 

 tirely white*, the fpecies is now extinfl ; nor is there 

 to be found at prelent in any part of thefe kingdoms 

 a wild breed of any fort, analogous to the domeftic 

 kinds. 



Frequent mention is made of our favage cattle by 

 hiftorians. One relates, that Robert Bruce, king of 

 Scotland, in chacing thefe animals, was preferved from 

 the furious attacks of a wild bull by the intrepidity 

 of one of his courtiers, from which he and his lineage 

 acquired the name of'Turnbull. Fitz-Stephens-f names 

 thefe animals among thofe that harbored in the great 

 foreil that in his days lay adjacent to London. Ano- 

 ther enumerates among the provifions at the great 

 feaftj of AVwY, archbilhop of Jb*->^, fix wild bulls. 



* Jonjion. Kat. Hiji, i. 37. ' 



t Fiiz-Stcphens was a monk, who lived in the time o^ Henry If. 

 and wrote a hillory oi London ; a tranflation of it may be feen in 

 one of the x'^nnual Regillers. 



: Leiand's coUecl. 



And 



