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THE WHITE UBCS, OR 
name from Calder, which signifies a hazel, or. com- 
mon nut-bush. The Roman historians deliglit much 
to talk of the furious white bulls which the Forest of 
Caledonia brought forth. In these early days, they 
are represented as of large size, and as possessing 
juham densam, ac demissam instar leonis ; or, as 
Holinshed has it, ‘ crisp and curled manes like feirs 
leonis.’ At what period this great forest was destroy- 
ed, and the white cattle extirpated, is uncertain. Sir 
Robert Sibbald describes them, in his time, as de- 
nuded of their manes. In the sixteenth century, 
they seem to have become entirely extinct as a wild 
race, and, as we learn from Gesner, ‘ were all slain, 
except in that part which is called Cummemad.’ 
Another author informs us, that ‘ thocht thir bullis 
were bred in sindry boundis of the Colidin Wod, now 
be continewal hunting and lust of insolent men, they 
are destroyit in all parts of Scotland, and nane of 
them left but allenerlie in Cumernald.’ At what 
period the present breed w'ere introduced to the 
royal chase at Cadzow, cannot now be well ascertain- 
ed. It is well known that the Cummings were at 
one period proprietors of Cadzow and Cumbernauld, 
and it is likely that in theSr time the white cattle 
were in both places. But be that as it may, they 
have long been extirpated at Cumbernauld, while 
they have been preserved in great perfection at Ha- 
milton. The universal tradition in Clydesdale is, 
that they have been at Cadzow from the remotest 
antiquity; and the probability is, that they are apart 
