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Spey and Elgin. It has been there converted 

 into a beast of draught ; for I have been assured 

 by a minister of that country, eye witness to the 

 fact, that he had on his first coming into his 

 parish seen a cow, a sow, and two Trogues 

 (young horses) yoked together, and drawing a 

 plough in a light sandy soil, and that the sow 

 ^vas the best drawer of the four. In Minorca 

 the ass and the hog are common help-mates^ 

 and are yoked together in order to turn up the 

 land. 



The wild-boar was formerly a native of our 

 country, as appears from the laws of Howel 

 cida* who permitted his grand huntsman to 

 chace that animal from the middle of November 

 to the beginning of Deceviher. William the 

 Conqueror punished m ith the loss of their eyes, 

 those who were convicted of killing the wild- 

 boar, the stag, or the roebuck ;t and Fitz- ' 

 Stephen tells us, that the vast forest which in his - 

 time grew on the north side of London, was the 

 retreat of stags, fallow-deer, wild-boars, and 

 bulls. Charles I. turned out wild-boars in the 

 New Forest, Hampshire, but they were destroy- 

 ed in the civil wars. 



* Leges JVallkce. Al. f Leges Saxon. 2Q2. 



