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any manner of tradition, that even makes mention of 

 the name; therefore whatfoever difcoveries are made 

 of this creature, can only be from the parts of it dug 

 up by accident, and preferved in the earth fo many 

 ages from corruption, by lying deep and clofe under 

 ground; whilft fo many bodies of a nature more dura- 

 ble moulder away and perifh, by being expofed to the 

 various changes of the air and injuries of the weather. 

 Thefe quadrupeds muft have been numerous ; as their 

 remains are found in every part of the kingdom, and 

 in fome places feveral of their heads clofe together. 

 What an idea does this fuggeft of the fertility of a 

 country equal to the fupport of a gramenivorous animal 

 of fo ftupendous a iize? Amongft the many exuviae of 

 this kind, that have been found in this county, the 

 moft remarkable are thofe horns and bones dug up in 

 a marie pit near Dromore, jn Auguft 1783 v they are 

 now in the Bifhop's pofleffion : the dimenfions are, of 

 the head and horns meafured from tip to tip, following 

 the curve, fourteen feet fix inches, from tip to tip in a 

 right line, ten feet three inches, the entire horn feven 

 feet three inches, the other, of which the point was 

 broken, fix feet nine inches, round the root of the horn 

 fixteen inches : the bones of this {lately creature were 

 of fuitable magnitude ; the head in length, beginning 

 at the vertebras, twenty-three inches in breadth, at the 

 eyes eleven inches ; moft of the vertebras were found 

 along with the horns, alfo the thigh bones, the fhoulder 



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