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T)f the journal, (See Plate III. Fig. 9,) upon precisely the same 

 scale as the original delineation. 



The written account which Munster has annexed to his re- 

 presentation of this cervus is very brief. It may be given in 

 the author''s own words. " Nutrit prseterea Prussia animalia 

 quae putantur esse alces, Gerraanice autera vocantur Elend, 

 habentque magnitudinem asini aut mediocris equi. Ungulas 

 ejus dicuntur prodesse his qui caduco laborant morbo, et pellis 

 est tarn dura, ut nee confodi neque dissecari possit. Caro ejus 

 dicitur esse ex nobiliori venatione. Color autem subrufus est, 

 nonnihil nigricans, habetque albicantia crura. Figuram hujus 

 animalis ad vivum deformatam et qualiter lineis exprjmi po- 

 test, feci hie depingi."'"' 



This animal Munster compares with other Cervi, but as he 

 afterwards translated his work into the German language, I 

 prefer quoting him from this subsequent version, which was 

 a posthumous publication, particularly as a few slight altera- 

 tions occur in the text of the latter, which it may be well to 

 notice.* 



In the part of the volume wherein mention is made of this 

 Cervus, the author proposes to enumerate the various animals 

 which are to be found in Prussia. But when he comes to the 

 tribe of the Cervi, he is evidently much puzzled in reconciling 

 the different descriptions of them which were published under 

 as many different names. Commencing therefore with a tame 

 animal of this genus, he observes : " This land produces also 

 Bison tes, some Germans call them Damen or Damthier^ that 

 is, animals which are partly like stags and partly like cattle, 

 except that they have long ears, and that the males have 

 broader horns than the stag. One may see many of these 

 horns at Augsburg among the merchants, but they say they 



* This edition contains in other parts of the work very numerous and 

 important additions, some of which were made by the author himself. My 

 own copy is unfortunately imperfect, so that I cannot speak precisely to its 

 ^ate. I procured it while travelling through the Duchy of Wirteraberg 

 from the eating- room of a miserable inn, where it was destined to the use 

 of lighting the pipes of German smokers ; — numerous mutilated remains 

 of other revered and defunct authors lying strewed about, like the bones of 

 noble animals collected for the use of vile hyenas in one of Dr Bucklaud's 

 antediluvian dens. The German Strabo was reserved for the next sacrifiw, 

 from which I rescued him with the loss only of his title-page. 



