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weigh twelve or fourteen Pounds. These Beasts are plenti- 

 fully to be met with in the Savannas near the Mountains, and 

 Heads of Rivers : It is reported that some of them are seven- 

 teen Hands high. Several parts of this Animal are used with 

 good Success in Physick, and especially the Hoofs of the 

 Male's hinder Feet, which have a pleasant scent when they 

 are burnt. 



The Stags are swift in Motion, and are said to be a long- 

 liv'd Creature, they are plentifully to be met with in or near 

 the Mountains, but are not so large as those in Europe, yet 

 much larger than any Fallow-Deer. They are fat all Seasons 

 of the Year, and it is said, that some Deer on the Mountains 

 afford the Occidental Bezoar, and not produced from the 

 Goat, as some have reported. The Flesh nourishes almost like 

 Beef, but breeds much more melancholy Juice. The Tallow 

 makes incomparable fine Candles, and their Horns and Skins 

 are a good Commodity. There are many valuable Virtues 

 ascribed to the several Parts of this Deer, and all the other 

 sorts, and not undeservedly, which are so well known, that it 

 would be needless to insert them here. 



The Fallow-Deer are taller and longer Legg'd in Carolina, 

 than those that are to be met with in Europe, but neither run 

 so fast, nor are so well Haunched. Their Shingles are like- 

 wise much longer, and their Horns stand forward as the other 

 incline backwards. Towards the Salts, they are not com- 

 monly so fat and good as those on the Hills, and near the 

 Heads of the Rivers : They are in great plenty all over this 

 Province. Their Xostrils and Throats are frequently found 

 full of Bots or Maggots in the Spring, which make them very 

 poor at that time ; but as the Summer approaches these Bots 

 become the most beautiful Butter-flies immaginable, being 

 large, having black, white, red, and yellow stripes in their 

 Wings. 



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