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good accommodations for gentlemen and 

 travellers, who wish to take a tour through 

 the country, and the roads are all exceed- 

 ingly good. 



OF THE DEER. 



Though this volume does not profess to 

 treat of hunting, it will be necessary for me 

 to give a short account of the nature of deer, 

 and the method of slotting and harbouring 

 them, as pursued by forest sportsmen, which 

 introduces itself properly in this place be- 

 tween the chapters of shooting and coursing, 

 as guns and greyhounds are both used for 

 killing of venison. 



The hart is called the first year a hind, or 

 calf, the second a brocket, the third a spayd, 

 or spayade, the fourth a staggard, the fifth a 

 stag, and the sixth a hart ; and when he is 

 past his sixth year he is called a hart of ten, 

 and afterwards, according to the increase of 

 his head, is named chroched, palmed, or 



