1 8 S The Statural Hi /lory 



apiece. And amongft the Quadrupeda <%;\., or cloven -hoofc 

 Beafts, there was a Hog at Vpper-Tadmerto*, of as ftrangeayfo- 

 ture as they were of age ; being fed by one Pargiter to fo extra- 

 vagant a greatnefs, that he came at laft to be near 1 3 hands high, 

 as it was teftified to me by the Reverend Mr. Whateley, Reftor 

 of the place , and feveral others who had carefully meafured 

 him. 



38. Of four footed Beafts that chew the cud, they have a fort 

 of //jeep efteemed in this Country for their conftantly bearing two 

 lambs at a time, whence they have juftly obtained the name, 

 though fomwhat an improper one, of double Ews. They are 

 faid to have been firft brought into this Country by the Worfhipful 

 James Vxley of Darnford Efq ; where I hear they are (till preferved 

 by the Right Worfliipful Sir Nicholas Pelham Knight, who with 

 one of his daughters (a cokeirefi) enjoys that Eflate. 1 heard of 

 them alfo about Nemngton and Dorchefter, and fome other places 

 here and there in the County. 



39. But there are much ftranger^W/>, though perhaps not fo 

 profitable, at Ricot in the Park of the Right Honorable the Lord 

 Norreys, brought hither from fome other parts of England or 

 Wales, but now breeding here : Of which, fome of them at firft 

 had fix or eight horns apiece, but the number upon mixture of 

 their generation with other Jbeep is fince diminifh'd. However, 

 there remain ftill/nco of them with very firange heads, having each 

 four horns ; one of them with two larger ones iffuing from the top 

 of its head, bending forward, and two fide ones coming out 

 from under its ears, "and bending round towards its mouth, as in 

 Tab. 10.Fig.10. And the other having two large horns ftanding 

 prety upright on its head, and two fide ones proceeding from 

 under the ears like the former, and bending round to the cheeks, 

 into which they would grow (and fo in the whole kind) were 

 they not prevented by being timely cut off, as in Tab. 10. 

 Fig. 11. 



40. And as thefe are remarkable for their many horns? there 

 was another Jbeep once there, that excelled all the reft, in its be- 

 ing a Vnicorn, having a finglehorn growing almoft in the middle 

 of its fore-head, 21 inches long, with annulary protuberances 

 round it, and a little twifted about the middle, as in Tab. 10. 

 Fig* 12. There was, 'tis true, another little horn grew on the 



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