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Thefe forcfts were all antiently ftored with red deer. There 

 were near 6000 head of deer, red, roe, and fallow, in the forefts 

 and parks of the right honourable the Earl of Northumberland, in 

 the northern counties, 4 Henry VIII. 1512 ; according to an ac- 

 count given by his Majefty's commiffioners ; and at the Dame 

 time there were red deer in his Lordfhip's forefl of Rothbury. 



In the park of the right honourable the Earl of Tankerville, at 

 Chillingham, there is a fpecies of wild white cattle, of a diminu- 

 tive fize ; faid to have been firft brought from the Highlands of 

 Scotland, but at what particular time cannot be remembered. A 

 female, with a calf at her foot, is not to be approached without 

 danger. No fooner are people feen in the park, than fired with 

 jealoufy for the fafety of her little one, fhe runs with terror and 

 deftru<5tion in her looks to meet the'm, and the reft of the herd 

 fly to her affiftance, with the fame wrathful countenances, 

 threatening vengeance to the forward intruders. When one of 

 them is killed for the table, it is ufually with a gun by furprize, 

 as the Americans kill their wild bulls and cows on the continent; 

 there being no other fafe way of doing it ; the whole troop on 

 the leafl alarm coming to the defence and refcue of an injured 

 companion, in a bold and irregular charge. 



Hares with us have been as plentiful as in moil counties, but 

 they are like to be as fcarce as the admired birds of our heaths 

 and mountains, the Gor and Grey ; unlefs our young fportfmen 

 would have more regard to their prefervation, and their own 

 pleafure, and not hunt them down annually, like wolves and 

 bears, to be extirpated without mercy. The confideration of 

 their own healths, promoted by the exercife of the chace, mould 

 prevail with them, methinks, prudently to fave, and not in a 



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