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shows how the wildest animals of the order Euminantia 

 may be subjugated by man, and as an example of this 

 it will be hereafter noticed. 



The further account of the herd is derived from my 

 own inquiries on the spot. Starting from Buxton on 

 August 10th, 1875, I stopped at Disley station, from 

 which Lyme Park is distant about two miles. The 

 whole county is one continuation of the elevated hills 

 of North Derbyshire — now generally in pasture, but 

 formerly part of the Peak and Macclesfield Forests. To 

 this the country round Lyme offers no exception. The 

 whole way from Disley is a very strong pull up-hill, 

 and when you arrive there you see, far below, the great 

 vale of Cheshire and Lancashire, as far as the Eivington 

 hills, in the distance. I drove through a small park, 

 where groups of fine large stags — retaining perhaps some 

 traditional memory of the instruction of Joseph Watson 

 — stood at no great distance, leisurely and quietly survey- 

 ing me from beneath oaks, many of which showed, by 

 their grandeur and their decay, that they were verging 

 towards the conclusion of a life which had probably lasted 

 for a thousand years, and most of which must have been 

 in full vigour when, five hundred years before, they were 

 imparked from the Forest of Macclesfield together with 

 the red deer and wild cattle, to which for such long ages 

 they had afforded shelter. Encircling the fine mansion, 

 which is built round an open court-yard and filled with 

 the most interesting relics of the past, are similar small 

 parks and paddocks, beautifully wooded; and beyond 

 these, at the distance of half a mile or more from the 

 house, you come to the wild and extensive park which 

 the wild cattle inhabit, called " The Park Moor." This 

 is in summer their constant residence. In winter they are 



