|Q ^ ROEBUCK. Class I. 



of Henry VIIL* In France they are more 

 frequent ; they are also found in Italy, Szceden, 

 and Norway ; and in Siberia in Asia.-\ The 

 first that are met v/ith in Great Britain are in 

 the woods on the south side of Loch Kamioch, 

 in Perthshire: the last in those of Langwal, on 

 the southern borders of Cathness ; but they are 

 most numerous in the beautiful forests of In- 

 ^cercauld, in the midst of the Grampian hills. 

 They are unknown in Ireland. 

 Descrip. This is one of the lest of the deer kind, 

 being only three feet nine inches long, tvv o feet 

 three inches high before, and two feet seven 

 behind : the weight is from .50 to 60lb. The 

 horns are from eight to nine inches long, up- 

 right, round, and divided into only three 

 branches ; their lower part is sulcated length- 

 ways and extremely rugged ; of this part is 

 made handles for couteaus, knives, S^c. The 

 horns of a young buck in its second year are 

 quite plain; in its third year a branch ap- 

 pears ; in the fourth its head is complete. The 



* The editor has been mfonned that seven or eight specimens 

 of the horns of the roebuck have been discovered in the peat beds 

 near Romsey, in Hampshire ; a proof, that at some remote 

 period, this animal inhabited the southern part of the kingdom. 

 A complete head of a beaver with the teeth entire, was found in 

 the same place. Ed. 



•\ Bf/Z's Travels^ ■ ,'...-. .'..;.. 



