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England so early as has been supposed—that is, 
previously to Charles I.’s attempt to reintroduce 
it into the New Forest. 
Of the few English writers who have described the 
hunting of the Wild Boar as formerly practised in 
England, George Turbervile, a gentleman of Dorset- 
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shire, has furnished the best account in his ‘‘ Booke 
of Hunting,” published in 1575, a second edition of 
which appeared in 1611. In this work, which is 
now very rare, and of which we possess an im- 
perfect copy, a long account is given of the ‘“ Wyld 
Bore” and its ways. ‘ Although it ought not,” he 
