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but they have tainted all the breed of the pigges of 
the neighbouring partes, which are of their colour; a 
kind of soot colour.”* This was written in 1680. 
Evelyn, in a note to this passage, observes: “ There 
were Wild Boars in a forest in Essex formerly. I 
sent a Portugal boar and sow to Wotton in Surrey, 
which greatly increased ; but they digged the earth 
so up, and did such spoyle, that the country 
would not endure it: but they made imcomparable 
bacon.” 
At a later period, as recorded by Gilbert White, 
General Howe turned out some German Wild Boars 
in the forests of Wolmer and Alice Holt, of which 
he had a grant from the Crown; but, as White 
says, “the country rose upon them and destroyed 
them.’’t 
The late Earl of Fife, who tried many experiments 
in introducing different animals into the Forest of 
Marr, turned out some Wild Boars by the advice 
of the Margrave of Anspach, who was at Marr 
Lodge on a visit; but the experiment in this case 
did not answer, for want of acorns, their principal 
food. | 
Forty years ago, Mr. Drax, of Charborough Park, 
Dorsetshire, made a similar experiment. Two pairs, 
one from Russia the other from lrance, were originally 
turned out in the woodsatCharboro’, and after remain- 
ing there several years they, or their descendants, 
* Aubrey,“ Nat. Hist, Wilts,” p. 59. 
+ “Nat. Hist. of Selborne,” Letter ix. to Pennant. 
~ Scrope’s “ Art of Deer Stalking,” p. 406. 
