wet and dry, they grow as light as any vjmifliing oi 

 other fubftance, as I have proved by experience, find- 

 ing fonie which have been loft by them in the Woods 

 wherefore I gather, that they are of an earthly fubN 

 fiance, concrete, and hardned with a ftrong heat, made 

 like unto Bones. They lofe thcfe Horns every year 

 in the Spring. At one year old they have nothing 

 but Bunches, that are fmall fignificators of Horns to 

 come : at two years they appear more perfectly, but 

 ftraight and fimple : at three years they grow into two 

 Spears : at four, into three ••, and fo increafe every year 

 in their Branches till they be fix ■, and above that time 

 their age is not certainly to be difcerned by theirii 

 Head. 



Having loft their Horns in the day - time , they 

 hide themfelves, inhabiting the fliades , to avoid the 

 annoyance of Flies, and feed, during that time onely, 

 in the night. Their new Horns come out at firft 

 like Bunches, and afterwards C as I faid before } by 

 the increafe of the Sun's heat they grow more hard, 

 covered with a rough Skin, which is called a Velvet- 

 headh and as that Skin drieth, they daily try the ftrength 

 of their new Heads upon Trees i which not onely 

 fcrapeth off" the roughnefs, but by the pain they feel thus 

 rubbing them, they are taught how long to forbear the 

 company of their fellows : for at laft, . when in thei^ 

 chating and fretting of tli£ir new Horn againft the 

 Tree they can feel no longer pain and fmart in them, 

 they take it for high time to forfake their folitary 

 dwellings, and return again to their former conditi- 

 on. 



The reafon why Harts and Veers do lofe theiif: 

 Horns yearly, are thefe : Firft, becaufe of the matter 

 whereof they conliftj for it is dry and earthy, like 

 the fubftance of green Leaves which have an yearly 

 fall, likewife, wanting glewing or ht)lding moifture 



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