786 Derivation of the Domestic Polled Breeds. 
We may leave Low here with the following quotations: “Thus 
we have all the evidence which the question admits of, that no real 
distinction exists between the wild oxen of the parks and those 
which have for ages been subjected to domestication in the same 
country, and that these wild oxen are no other than the Uri of the 
ancient forests of Europe.” 
“Thus were the Uri of the Scottish forests driven from the woods 
which they inhabited, destroyed, or made captive. Part, indeed, 
had been preserved in some of the religious houses, their flesh being 
more esteemed than that of ‘their ain tame bestial? But with the 
destruction of the ancient establishments, the oxen were dispersed, 
destroyed, or mingled with the common races. In a few places only 
they seem to have been preserved without intermixture—chiefly in 
the parks of the Dukes of Queensberry at Drumlanrig, and of the 
Dukes of Hamilton, at the Chace of Cadzow. Those at Drumlan- 
rig were, many years ago, destroyed by order of the late Duke of 
Queensberry. Those at the noble park of Hamilton are yet in 
existence, preserved with care.” He describes them as “ indubitably 
descendents of the ancient race,” and as to their size says they are 
in that respect the same as the cattle of the West Highlands. 
For convenience I continue from last chapter the consideration 
of the Scottish parks. And it is necessary in this investigation to 
examine these somewhat closely, so as to obtain a proper definition. 
of their limits, and to exhibit the direct connection they had with 
the polled breeds of to-day. 
Sir W. Jardine, Bt., (Naturalist? Library, Vol. IV.), makes 
these remarks in describing the “ White Urus, or Hamilton Breed 
of Wild Cattle”: “The Caledonia Sylva, or Caledonia Forest, 
. extended from Stirling through Monteith and Strathorne to Athol 
and Lochaber. It is described by old authors as dividing the Picts 
from the Scots, and, being well furnished with game, especially 
with the fierce white bulls and kine, it was the place of both ther 
huntings and of their greatest controversies. The Roman historians 
delight much to talk of the furious white bulls which the Forest 
of Caledonia brought forth... .. At what period the present 
breed was introduced to the royal chase at Cadzow cannot now be 
well ascertained. It is well known that the Cummings [Earls of 
Buchan] were at one period proprietors of Cadzow and Cumber- 
