Crass I. DEE R. 
Fames the firft out of Norway*, where he paffed 
fome time when he vifited his intended bride Ma- 
ry of Denmark +. He obferved their hardinefs ; and 
that they could endure, even in that fevere climate, 
the winter without fodder. . He firft brought fome 
into Scotland, and from thence tranfported them 
into his chaces of Emjfield and Epping, to be near 
his palace of Theobalds; for it is well known, that 
monarch was in one part of his character the Nimrod - 
of his days, fond to excefs of hunting, that image 
of war, although he detefted the reality. No 
country produces the fallow-deer in quantities 
equal to England. In France they are fearcely 
known, but are fometimes 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 ftate of nature, unconfined by man. 
They are not natives of America, for the deer 
known in our colonies by that name are a diftiné 
fpecies, a fort of ftag, as we have remarked p. 51. 
of our Synopfis of quadrupeds. 
The ufes of thefe animals are almoft fimilar; the 
fkin of the buck and doe is fufficiently known to 
* This we relate on the authority of Mr. Perer Collinfon. 
+ One of the Welch names of this animal (Grewr-danas, or 
Danifh goat) implies that it was brought from fome of the 
Danifo dominions. Ed. Lhwyd. Ph. tr. No. 334. 
{ Pontop. Norway. 11.9. Faun. Suec. {p. 42. 
| Hafelquif}. itin, 290. § Du Halde bik. China. 1. 315. 
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