140 THE WILD CATTLE OF SCOTLAND. 
other defective animals, were immediately destroyed,* and Low , 
speaks of the tendency of the young to be altogether black or 
altogether white, or to have black ears.{ In Knox’s “Natural His- — 
tory,” published probably in the earlier part of the present century, 
these cattle are said to have lost their manes, but to have retained 
their color and fierceness ; to be of a middle size, long legged, with | 
black muzzles and ears, and their horns to be fine and to have a 
bold and elegant bend. The keeper of those at Chillingham said 
that the weight of the ox was thirty-eight stone, of the cow twenty- 
eight. It would thus seem as if Knox spoke from personal obser- 
vation (vol. i, p. 55). i: 
The Hamilton Park cattle are often referred to as the cattle of 
the Chase of Cadzow, after the castle of that name, the former 
seat of the dukes of Hamilton.’ Cadzow Castle occupies a site oD 
the banks of the Avon in Lanarkshire, at one extremity of the 
ancient Caledonian wood. Aiton, in 1814, describes these cattle £ 3 
uniformly of a creamy 'white color, their muzzles and the greater 
part of their ears black or brown, and some with a few black spots. 
on their sides. A few are without horns, but the greater num) 
have handsome white ones, with black tips bent like a new moo 
Some of the bulls have a sort of mane, four or five inches lo 
- The cattle at Hamilton and Ardrossan are not so fierce and sav. 
as their ancestors, but at Auchencruive they still retain muc 
their natural ferocity. Their backs are high and not so straight 
could be wished. Their chest is deep but narrow, and they h 
much the appearance of the ill-fed native breed of the ca le 
, about fifty years ago.{ In 18451 
he females generally polled,§ and in J 
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