424 WEIGHT OF STAGS IN JURA. 



effectual mode of securing to himself peaceable 

 of his little seraglio. 



The stags in this forest grow to a large size, and have 

 been repeatedly killed of eighteen stone weight without 

 the intestines. The present chief of Islay killed a hart of 

 seventeen stone and a half Tron* weight, and in full 

 season, whose horns were only sixteen inches from the 

 points to the crown of the head. 



* Tron weight is nearly the same as Dutch, viz. seventeen ounces 

 and a half to the pound, and sixteen pounds to the stone ; accurately 

 speaking, perhaps, it may be a trifle more, but it is little in use. 



