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Very often the eagle himfelf is found in 

 the foreft. Mountainous, and rocky coun- 

 tries are his delight. On the ledge of fome 

 fteep, prominent rock he builds his eyiy, and 

 rears his royal progeny. But when food be- 

 comes fcarce in thofe defolate regions, as it 

 fometimes does, he finds it convenient to make 

 an excurfion into the foreft. Here he hunts 

 the leveret, and the fawn; and fcreens his 

 atrocious deeds in the clofeft woods. Where- 

 ever he is feen, the watchful forefter endeavours 

 to keep him in fight, till he bring him to the 

 ground. And yet I have heard of a pair of 

 eagles, which took polTefTion of a part of the 

 foreft, called King's-wood, where they eluded 

 all the aits of the keeper, and continued their 

 annual depredations, for feveral years. Some- 

 time ago, an eagle was killed, after three 

 difcharges, near Afhley-lodge ; and was ex- 

 tended, like the imperial aims, in the court- 

 room of the king's-houfe at Lyndhurft. 



Of all the feathered inhabitants of the 

 foreft I fhould have thought it's fcenes, in every 

 refpeft, the beft adapted to the rook. Here 

 he might build his habitation; and rear his 



young, 



