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forming line, arid beating round the hill, found 

 the boar stone dead on the further side. The 

 spear had entered his lungs, and he had died 

 from internal hemorrhage. His tusks were most 

 symmetrical, and, mounted, form nearly a perfect 

 circle. 



The following are the dimensions of a very 

 handsome boar I assisted in killing at a place 

 called Seroor, near Nagpore : Height, thirty- four 

 and a half inches ; length, taken from snout, 

 along the back, to root of tail, eight feet two 

 inches ; length of tail, not including bristles at 

 the end, eleven and a half inches ; girth at 

 shoulder, four feet six inches ; tusks, seven and 

 three-quarter inches. Sows for, owing to a 

 scarcity of boars, and owing to the depredations 

 of the porcine tribe, we were sometimes obliged 

 to ride them as a rule, measured about twenty- 

 nine to thirty inches, though I have speared one 

 myself measuring thirty-two inches ; and there 

 were in the i Hunt Book ' above referred to in- 

 stances of some measuring thirty-three inches. 

 I have heard of boars measuring forty inches, and 

 even forty-two inches, and of tusks twelve and 

 thirteen inches long ; but those must have been 

 obtained in a more favoured part of the country, 

 and the accounts flavoured cum grano as far as 



