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. in the mountains of Thuringia, a stag of stupendous 



it and dimen.Mi'iH, whose great age is quite a tradition. 



having l'i-.-n handed down from father to son in the village, 



rv remote anil un traceable period of time, though 



ill appears in full vigour. lie has long enjoyed an 



.unity: the duke having restricted every one from 



; at him. Tin- woods are of oak ; and the acorns, no 



donlit, are one great cause of the large growth of the 



i:vn deer. 



William Twici, or Twety, grand huntsman to King 

 nl the Second, in his Treatise upon Hunting, men- 

 tions, amongst other beasts of the chase of the first e 1 



uck, tlu- dec, the bear, the reindeer, the elk, and the 

 ii-d : whieh latter, hr himself informs us, is a hart of 

 one hundred years old: these he calls "beasts of FV 

 Hi-lit." 



On the other hand, "Aristotle, drawing an argun 



tli< ineivmeiit and gestation of deer, (I quote from 



Thomas Browne,) comes to the conclusion, that they 



are not such as afford an argument of long life : and these 



i Sorfger, his translator) are good mediums, con- 



i\ely taken that is, not one without the other: for 



of animals viviparous, such as live long go long with 



ng, and attain but slowly to their maturity and stature : 



so the horse, that liveth above thirty, arrivcth at hU stature 



in about six years, and rcmaineth above ten months in the 



womb; so the camel, that liveth unto fifty, goeth with 



young no less than ten months, and ceaseth not to grow 



before s. :.d n the elephant, that liveth an hundred, 



bear.-th its yniing above a year, and arriveth unto per- 



.'ii at tweiit\. On the nntrar\, i he >he,-|, :.nd L r n:lt , 



