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DEER. Class I. 



and others fometimcs met with in our own king- 

 dom. The latter are evidently of the (lag kind, 

 but much ftronger, thicker, heavier, and furniflied 

 with fewer antlers than thufe of the prcfent race; 

 of thofe fome have been found on the fea-coa(l of 

 LancaJJjire*^ and a fingle horn was dug a few 

 years ago out of the fands near Chefter. Thofe 

 found in f Ireland mnii be referred to the elk kind, 

 but of a fpecies different from the European^ being 

 provided with brow antlers which that wants: 

 neither are they of the Moofe deer or American, 

 which entirely agrees with the elk of Europe^ as 

 I have fo ind by comparifon. Entire Ikeletons of 

 this animal are fometimes met with, lodged in a 

 white marie. Some of thefe horns are near twelve 

 feet between tip and tip :j:. Not the fainted account 

 (traditional or hiftoric) is left of the exigence of 

 thefe animals in our kingdom ; fo that they may 

 pofTibly be ranked among thofe remains which fof- 

 fiiifts difiinguifh by the title of diluvian. 



Mr. Graham^ faflor to the HudforC% Bay compa- 

 Tiy^ once gave me hopes of difcovering the living 

 animal. He informed me that he had received 



* Ph. Tr. No. 422. 



f No. 227. Bcate's Kat. Hijl. Ireland^ 137.. 



t A pair of this fize is preferved at Sir Patrick Belie^^s^ 

 Bart, in the county of Louth. The great difference between 

 the Moofe horns and the Foflil is Ihewen in Plates VII. and 



IX. of my Sjmpjis of !:^adrupecls, 



accounts 



