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within reach of the sticks of the beaters, having, 

 like human beings, a far greater dread of an un- 

 known danger than of one which he sees and 

 knows the full extent of; and like many people 

 taking " omne ignotum pro horribili." 



Though red- deer seldom come down to the 

 woods in this immediate neighbourhood, I have 

 occasionally seen one who has probably wandered 

 away from the Duke of Eichmond's forest. 



Instances, too, sometimes occur of a stag being 

 found in the act of swimming narrow parts of the 

 Moray Firth • — a solitary deer, who probably has 

 been driven by dogs from his usual haunts, till, 

 frightened and bewildered, he has wandered at 

 random; and at last, coming to the shore, has swam 

 boldly out, attracted by the appearance of the 

 woods on the opposite side. 



END OF VOL. I. 



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