102 NATURAL HISTORY 
of Richmond, at Goodwood, but was greatly disap- 
pointed, when I arrived at the spot, to find that it 
died, after having appeared in a languishing way 
for some time, on the morning before. However, 
understanding that it was not stripped, I proceeded 
to examine this rare quadruped ; [ found it in an 
old greenhouse, slung under the belly and chin by 
ropes, and in a standing posture. The grand dis- 
tinction between this deer and any other species 
that I have ever met with consisted in the strange 
length of its legs, on which it was tilted up much 
in the manner of the birds of the gralle order. I 
measured it as they do a horse, and found that, 
from the ground to the wither, it was just five feet 
four inches, which height answers exactly to six- 
teen hands, the growth that few horses arrive at: 
but then, with this length of legs, its neck was re- 
markably short, no more than twelve inches; so 
that, by straddling with one foot forward and the 
other backward, it grazed on the plain ground with 
the greatest difficulty between its legs: the ears 
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