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of the hind leg, below the joint, is a tuft of long 
hair. 
The make of the roebuck is very elegant, and 
formed for agility. Thefe animals do not keep in 
herds like other deer, but only in families; they 
bring two fawns at a time, which the female is o- 
bliged to conceal from the buck while they are very 
young. The flefh of this creature is reckoned a 
delicate food. 
It is a tender animal, incapable of bearing great 
cold. AZ de Buffon tells us that in the hard win- 
ter of 1709, the fpecies in Burgundy were almoft 
deftroyed, and many years paft before it was re- 
ftored again. I was informed in Scotland, that it 
is yery difficult to rear the fawns; it being com- 
puted that eight out of ten of thofe that are taken 
from their parents die. 
Wild roes during jummer feed on grafs, and are 
very fond of the rubus famatiis, catled in the high- 
lands the roebuck berry; but in winter time, when 
the ground is covered with fnow, they brouze on 
the tender branches of fir and birch. | 
In the old Welfh laws, a roebuck was valued at 
the fame price as a fhe-goat; a ftag at the price 
of an ox; and a fallow deer was efteemed equal to 
that of a cow; or, as fome fay, a he-goat*. 
It will not be foreign to the prefent fubject, to 
mention the vaft horns frequently found in Ireland, 
* Leges Wallica, 258. 
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