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James the firft out of Norway*^ where he pafied' 

 fome time when he vifited his intended bride Ma- ^ 



ry oi Denmark '\'. He obferved their hardinefs ; and 

 that they could endure, even in that fevere climate, 

 the winter without fodder. He firft brought fome 

 into Scotland^ and from thence tranfported them 

 into his chaces of Enfield and Epping^ to be near 

 his palace of "Theobalds •, for it is well known, that 

 monarch was in one part of his character the Nimrod' 

 of his days, fond to excefs of hunting, that image 

 of war, although he deteflcd the reality. No 

 country produces the fallow-deer in quantities 

 equal to England. In France they are fcarcely 

 known, but are fometimes found in the north J of 

 Europe. In Spain they are extremely large. They 

 are met with in Greece., the Holy Land\\^ and in 

 China § ; but in every country except our own are 

 in a ftate of nature, unconfined by man. 



They are not natives of America ; for the deer 

 known in our colonies by that name are a diftincl 

 fpecies, a fort of (lag, as we have remarked p. 51, 

 of our Synopjis of quadrupeds. 



The ufes of thefe animals are almofl: fimilar ; the 

 fkin of the buck and doe is fufficiently known to 



* This we relate on the authority of Mr. Peter Collinfon, 

 f One of the Welch names of this animal {Gie-vr-cia?ias, or 



Damp goat) implies that it was brought from fome of the 



Danijh dominions. Ed. Llivyd. Ph. tr. No. 334. 

 X Pontop. Nor-ivay. II. 9. Faun. Suec. fp. 42, 

 II Hajfelquift, itin. 290, § Du Halde hill, Ch'via. I. 315, 



every 



