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HAVING finished our sketch of this important 

 tribe of animals, we would wish to impress upon in- 

 dividuals abroad the imperfect knowledge we yet 

 possess of a very great number of these animals, 

 which seem capable of being applied to so many of 

 the wants of mankind. Many gentlemen follow with 

 great keenness the sports of the field, and undergo 

 great fatigue, and risk much danger ; and a little at- 

 tention at the conclusion of their day's sport, and a 

 little care of some of the animals killed, besides 

 those which are good for the table, would, in time, 

 add to our knowledge, and would greatly increase 

 the pleasure and satisfaction derived from their hunt- 

 ing expeditions. The skins, perhaps, could not al- 

 ways be preserved, but in a warm country, skele- 

 tons are easily made, and the skull, with the horns 

 attached, are always* of much importance in discri- 

 minating a species, and have the farther qualification 

 of not being easily spoiled or destroyed. Native 

 artists, particularly in India, draw with great accu- 

 racy; and, next to the animal itself, a correct draw- 

 ing is of importance. Immense districts of our pos- 

 sessions in every part of the world are yet unex- 

 plored ; and, wherever man has gained a footing for 

 a short space, the animals are fleeing before him, 

 and none more than the ruminants dislike interrup- 

 tion, and delight in solitude. Our Indian posses- 

 sions are examples of this, in the extirpation of al- 



