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frequent any part of the forefl near a lodge, 

 you will hear this hollowing noife refounding 

 through the woods ; and if you are not apprifed 

 of it, you will be apt to wonder, each evening, 

 at it's periodical exadtnefs. 



Deer feed generally in the night, or at early 

 dawn, and retire in the day to the fhelter of 

 the woods. Their morning retreat is thus 

 pi^turefquely defcribed. 



— — — — — The day pours in a-pace, 



And opens all the lawny profpeft wide ; 

 The hazy woods, the mountain's mifty top, 

 Swell on the fight : while o'er the foreft glade, 

 The wild deer trip; and often turning, gaze 

 At early palVengers 



Mr. Pennant tells us*, that in Germany the 

 peafants frequently watch their corn, the 

 whole night, to preferve it from the depre- 

 dations of deer. He needed not, on this head, 

 to have carried us fo far from home : the bor- 

 derers, of New- forefl: are equally fubje(5t to 

 the depredations of thefe animals -, and are often 

 obliged, when the neighbouring deer have 

 gotten a haunt of their corn-lands, to burn 

 fires all night to deter them. I heard a far- 



■■ See Brit. Zool. 



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