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and others fometimes met with in our own king- 
dom. The latter are evidently of the ftag kind, 3 
but much ftronger, thicker, heavier, and furnifhed 
with fewer antlers than thofe of the prefent race; 
of thofe fome have been found on the fea-coaft of — 
Lancafbire*, and a fingle horn was dug a few 
years ago out of the fands near Chefter. Thofe 
found in + Ireland mutt be referred to the elk kind, 
but of a fpecies different from the European, being 
provided with brow antlers which that wants: 
neither are they of the Moofe deer or American, 
which entirely agrees with the elk of Europe, as 
I have found by comparifon. Entire fkeletons of 
this animal are fometimes met with, lodged in a 
white marle. Some of thefe horns are near twelve 
feet between tipand tip +. Not the fainteft account 
(traditional or hiftoric) is left of the exiftence of 
thefe animals in our kingdom, fo that they may 
poffibly be ranked among thofe remains which fof- 
filifts diftinguifh by the title of diluvian. 
Mr. Graham, fa&tor to the Hud/on’s Bay compa- 
my, once gave me hopes of difcovering the living 
animal. He informed me that he had received. 
Te Pad &. ANG, 422, 
+ No. 227. Boate’s Nat. Hift. Ireland, 137. 
t A pair of this fize is preferved at Sir Patrick Belleww’s, 
Bart, in the county of Louth. The great difference between 
the Moofe horns and the Foffil is fhewen in Plates VII. and 
IX. of my Synopfs of Quadrupeds. 
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