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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



" The length of the chase is uncertain : but as 

 they were seen at Redkirks, near Annan, in Scot- 

 land, distant by the post-road, about forty-six miles, 

 it is conjectured that the circuitous and uneven 

 course they might be supposed to take would not 

 be less than one hundred and twenty miles. 



" To commemorate this fact, the horns of the 

 Stag, which were the largest ever seen in that 

 part of the country, were placed on a tree of a most 

 enormous size, in the park (afterwards called the 

 Hart-horn tree), accompanied with this inscrip- 

 tion : 



'' Hercules kill'd Hart o' Greece; 

 "And Hart o' Greece kill'd Hercules." 



" The horns have been since removed, and are 

 now at Julian's Bower, in the same county." 



