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houses, and cottages ; but their inhabitants were most 

 barbarously turned out, without any recompense ; and 

 the New Forest, as it was and is still called, remains, 

 a memorial of "William's great injustice and cruelty. 

 Rd deer are still found in this place, and in the forest 

 of Martindale, Cumberland, as well as in other parts 

 of England, and also among the mountains of Scotland 

 and Ireland. 



The adult stag is from three feet six inches, to four 

 feet high at the shoulders, and the horns seldom reach 

 three feet in length. The male is sometimes called a 

 hart, the female is a hind, the young one is a fawn. 

 The ancients supposed the stag to be very long-lived, 

 but the latest observations allow him scarcely more than 

 twenty years, which is probably less than his average 

 life in those countries where he can feed and range 

 undisturbed by man. Yet even now, in some of the 

 deer-forests of Scotland, the stag occasionally attains a 

 great age. Mr. Scrope mentions some well-attested in- 

 stances in recent times, of deer, which it was ascer- 

 tained were more than a hundred years old. 



Forest deer, though pasturing at large, seldom stray 

 far from their walk ; and the keeper, who wishes them 

 not to wander, encourages them to stay at home, by 

 giving them in summer the spray of ash, and in winter, 



