Class I. DEER. 57 



served their hardiness, and that they could en- 

 dure, even in that severe climate, the winter 

 without fodder. He first broudit some into 

 Scotland, and from thence transported them 

 to his chaces of Enfield and Epping, to be 

 near his palace of Theobalds; for it is well 

 known, that monarch was in one part of hi§ 

 character the Nimrod of his days, fond to excess 

 of hunting, that image of war, although he de- 

 tested the reality. No country produces the 

 fallow-deer in quantities equal to England. In 

 France they are scarcely known, but are some- 

 times found in the north* of Europe. In 

 Spain they are extremely large. They are met 

 with in Greece, the Holy Land,'\ and in 

 China ;% but in every country except our own 

 are in a state of nature, unconfined by man. 

 They are not natives of America, for the deer 

 known in our colonies by that name are a dis- 

 tinct species, a sort of stag, as we have remark- 

 ed vol. i. p. 116. of our History of Quadrupeds. 



The uses of these animals are almost simi- Uses. 

 lar ; the skin of the buck and doe is sufficiently 

 known to every one ; and the horns of the stag 

 are of great use in mechanics ; they, as well as 

 the horns of the rest of the deer kind, being ex- 



* Pontop. Norway. 11. Q. Faun. Suec. sp. 42. 



-}" Ilasselqiiist. itin. 2gO. 



X Du Halde hist. China. I. 315. 



