food be plentiful, he is hunted for his fkin. 

 But tho his nature is gentle, like many other 

 animals, he will turn upon his purfuer, if he 

 be wounded. He fights with his fore-feet. 

 We have a ftory well authenticated of a hunter, 

 on whom a wounded moofe-deer turned. He 

 was found in the woods pounded into a jelly : his 

 very bones were broken in pieces ; and the 

 deer, -having exhaufted his fury, was found 

 lying dead befide him. 



The woods of Germany nouriih the wild 

 boar, a beaft by no means among the ignobleft 

 of the foreft. His form, the mape of his 

 head, his fhort erect ears, his tufks, his thick 

 mufcular moulders, adorned with briftles, and 

 the lightnefs of his hind quarters, fo contrary 

 to the domeftic-hog, which is a round lump, 

 are all highly picture fque. Such allb are his 

 colour, a grifly brown ; and his coat, covered 

 in many parts, as well as his fhoulders, with 

 long, fweeping briftles. Nor are his gait, 

 attitude, and motion, inferior to his form. 

 This beaft, during the three firft years of 

 his life, herds with the litter, among which 

 he was produced. He is then called by 



forefters 



