NATURAL HISTORY. 



SIS* 



The mode of killing them was, 

 perhaps, the modern remains of 

 the grandeur of ancient hunting. 

 On notice being given, that a wild 

 bull would be killed upon a certain 

 day, the inhabitants of the neigh- 

 bourhood came mounted, and armed 

 with guns, &c. sometimes to the 

 amount of a hundred horse, and 

 four or five hundred foot, who stood 

 upon walls or got into trees, while 

 the horsemen rode off the bull from 

 the rest of the herd, until he stood 

 at bay ; when a marksman dis- 

 mounted and shot. At some of 

 these huntings, twenty or thirty 

 shots have been fired before he was 

 subdued. On such occasions, the 

 bleeding victim grew desperately 

 furious, from the smarting of his 

 wounds, and the shouts of savage 

 joy that were echoing from every 

 side; but, from the number of ac- 

 cidents that happened, this dan- 

 gerous mode has been little prac- 

 ticed of lateyears ; the park-keeper 

 alone generally shooting them with 

 a rifled gun, at one shot. When 

 the cows calve, they hide their 

 cak'es, for a week or ten days, in 

 some sequestered situation, and go 

 and suckle them two or three times 

 a day. If any person comes near 

 the calves, they clap their heads 

 close to the ground, and lie like a 

 hare in form, to hide themselves. 

 This is a proof of their native wild- 

 ness, and is corroborated by the 

 following circumstance, that hap- 

 pened to the writer of this narra- 

 tive, who found a hidden calf, two 

 days old, very lean, and very weak. 

 On stroking its head, it got up, 

 pawed two or three times like an 

 old bull, bellowed very loud, step- 

 ped back a few steps, and bolted at 

 his legs with all its force ; it then 

 began to paw again, bellowed. 



stepped back, and bolted as before ; 

 but knowing its intention, and 

 stepping aside, it missed me, fell, 

 and was so very weak, that it could 

 not rise, though it made several ef- 

 sorts. But it had done enough, the 

 whole herd were alarmed, and 

 coming to its rescue, obliged me to 

 retire; for the dams will allow no 

 person to touch their calves, with- 

 oi!t attacking them wiih inpetuous 

 ferocity. 



When any one happens to be 

 wounded, or grown weak and fee- 

 ble through age or sickness, the rest 

 of the herd set upon it, and gore it 

 to death. 



Account of some remarknhle caves in 

 the principality of Bni/reutk, and 

 of the fossil lones found (herein. 

 Extracted from a paper sent, with 

 specimens oj the loves, as a pre-- 

 sent to the Royal Society ., by his 

 most serene highnessthe margrave 

 of Anspach, isfc. from tUe Phi- 

 losop/iical Transactions. 



A Ridge of primeval mountains 

 runs almost through Germany 

 in a direction nearly from west to 

 east; the Hartz, the mountains of 

 Thuringia, the Fitchtelberg in Fran- 

 conia, are different parts of it, 

 which in their farther extent consli- 

 tule the Riesenberg, and join the 

 Carpathian mountains ; the highest 

 parts of this ridge are granite, and 

 are flanked by alluvial and slratitied 

 mountains, consisting chiefly ol lime 

 stone, marl, and sandstone; such at 

 least is the tract of hills in which 

 the caves to be spoken of are situ- 

 ated, and over these hills tlie main 

 road leads from Bayreuth to hrlang, 

 or Nuremberg. Half way to this 

 town lies Strcilberg, where theie is 



a post. 



