SS BUCK. Clafs T. 



now fo common in feveral parts of this kingdom. 

 Thefe were introduced here by king James the jirfi 

 out oi Norway*^ where he paiTed fome time when 

 he viiited his intended bride Mary cf Denmark -f. 

 He obferved their hardinefs \ and that they could 

 endure, even in that fevere cHmate, the winter with- 

 out fodder. Re lirft brought fome into Scotland^ and 

 from thence tranfported them into his chaces of En- 

 field and Epping^ to be near his palace of Theobalds ; 

 for it is well known, that monarch was in one part of 

 his charader the Nimrod of his days, fond to excefs 

 of hunting, that image of war, although he detefled 

 the reality. 



The ufes of thefe animals are almioH: fimilarj the 

 fkin of the buck and doe is fufficiently known to 

 every onej and the horns of the ftag are of great ufe 

 in mechanics j they, as well as the horns of the reft 

 of the deer kind, ibeing ejccefllvely compad, folid, 

 hard and weighty ; and make excellent handles for 

 couteaus, knives, and feveral other utenfils. They 

 abound in that fait, which is the bafis of the fpirit of 

 Hartjhcrn -, and the remains (after the falts are ex- 

 tracted) being calcined, becomiC a valuable aftringent 

 in fluxes, which is known by the name of burnt 

 Hartfborn : Befides thefe ufes in mechanics and me- 

 dicine, there is an inftance in Giraldus Camhrenfis^ of ^ 

 CGuntefs oiCheJier^ who kept milch hindes, and made 

 cheefe, of their milk fome of which fhe prefented to 

 archbifnop Baldicin^ in his itinerary through PFales, 

 in the year 1188 J. 



* This we relate on the authority of Mr. Peier CoWmfon. 



t One of the Welch names of this animal {Geivr-danas, or Danijh 

 goat) implies that it was brought from fome of the Danijh domi- 

 C'ons. Ed, Lbivjd. Fb. tr. No. 334. J Girald, Camb. Itin. p. 216, 



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