THE WHITE URES. 
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which were found on the island when the Romans 
first visited it, and ivhich they represent as then 
running wild in the woods. The chase in which they 
hrowse was formerly a park or forest attached to the 
Royal castle of Cadzow, where the ancient British 
kings of Strathclyde, and subsequently kings of Scot- 
land, used frequently to reside and to hold their courts. 
The oaks with which the park is studded over, are 
evidently very ancient, and many of them are of enor- 
mous size. Some of these are English oaks, and 
are supposed to have been planted by King David, 
first Earl of Huntingdon, about the year 1 140. The 
chase is altogether of princely dimensions and ap- 
pearance, amounting to upwards of 1300 Scotch 
acres. The number of white cattle at present kept 
is upwards of sixty. Great care is taken to prevent 
the domestic bull from crossing the breed ; and if 
accidentally a cross should take place, the young is 
destroyed. In their general habits, they resemble 
the fallow-deer more than any other domestic ani- 
mal. Having been exposed, without shade or co- 
t'ering of any sort, to the rigours of our climate 
from time immemorial, they are exceedingly hardy; 
and having never been caught or subjected to the 
sway of man, they are necessarily peculiarly wild 
and untractable. Their affection for their young! 
like that of many other animals in a wild or half- 
wild state, is excessive. When dropt, they carefully 
•Conceal them among long grass or weeds in some 
firushwood or thicket, and approach them cautiously 
