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actly the same. The hair is of four colours ; 

 namely, follow, white, black, and grey. The 

 white is predominant under the belly, on the in- 

 side of the thighs and the legs. Along the back 

 there are two rows of spots in a right line ; but 

 those on other parts of the body are very irre- 

 gular. A white line runs along each side of this 

 animal, while the head and neck are grey. The 

 tail is black above and white beneath, and the 

 hair upon it is six inches long. 



Although there are but few individuals of the 

 deer kind, yet the race seems diffused over all 

 parts of the earth. The new continent of America, 

 in which neither the sheep, the goat, nor the 

 gazelle, have been originally bred, nevertheless 

 produces stags, and other animals of the deer 

 kind, in sufficient plenty. The Mexicans have a 

 breed of white stags in their parks, which they call 

 Stags Royal.* The stags of Canada differ from 

 ours in nothing except the size of the horns, 

 which in them is greater; and the direction of 

 the antlers, which rather turn back than project 

 forward, as in those of Europe. The same diffe- 

 rence of size that obtains among our stags is also 

 to be seen in that country ; and, as we are inform- 

 ed by Ruysch, the Americans have brought them 

 into the same state of domestic tameness that we 

 have our sheep, goats, or black cattle. They 

 send them forth in the day-time to feed in the 

 forests, and at night they return home with the 

 herdsman who guards them. The inhabitants 



* Bufibn, vol. xii. p. 35. 



