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ced themfelves in: but as this pretence was fre- 
_ quently ufed to collect their vaffals for rebellious 
purpofes, an act was pafled prohibiting any affem- 
blies of this nature. Stags are likewife met with on 
the moors that border on Cornwa/ and Devonfhire, 
and in Ireland on the mountains of Kerry, where 
they add greatly to the magnificence of the roman- 
tic fcenery of the lake of Killarny. 
The ftags of Jreland during its uncultivated Shien 
and while it remained an aloe boundlefs tract 
of foreft, had an exact acreement in habit, with 
thofe that range at prefent through the wilds of 
America. They were lefs in body, but very fat; 
and their horns of a fize far fuperior to thofe of Ea- 
rope, but in form agreed in all points. Old Gi- 
valdus {peaks with much precifion of thofe of Jre- 
land, Cervos pre nimia pinguedine minus fugere preva- 
lentes, quanto minores funt corporis quantitate, tanto 
precellentius efferuntur, capitis et cornuum dignitate*. 
We have in England two varieties of fallow-deer 
which are faid to be of foreign origin: The beau- 
tiful fpotted kind, and the very deep brown fort, 
that are now fo common in feveral parts of this 
kingdom. Thefe were introduced here by king 
* Topogr. Hibernie.c. 19. Law/fon in his hiftory of Caro- 
fina p. 123, mentions the fatnefs of the American flags, and 
their inferiority of fize to the European. I have often feen 
their horns, which vaitly exceed thofe of our country in 
fize, and number of antlers. 
James 
