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of the fame defcription. In the plate, in which 

 he is reprefented lingle, his common, domeftic 

 form is given. 



With horned cattle of courfe, the foreft, 

 like all other large walles, abounds ; and this 



is a fource of great pidlurefque beauty. 



The inclofure prefents only a fmall number 

 at once, the property of fome fmgle perfon : 

 but in the for eft y the cattle of all the neigh- 

 bouring hamlets, and cottages, pafture to- 

 gether. We fee them often in large herds; 

 and in fummer, the feafon of landfcape, they 

 are drawn in numbers, to favorite fpots, par- 

 ticularly about pools, and rivulets ; where a 

 choice may be made among the various combi- 

 nations, and attitudes they form, of fuch as are 



the moft beautiful, and pidturefque. Befides, 



they appear in 2^ for eft to much more advantage, 

 than they can poflibly do within the formality 

 of hedges. 



But of all animals with which the foreft 

 abounds, the ftag is in a peculiar manner 

 adapted to it's fcenes. The wildnefs of his 



nature 



