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reverse of this is true with regard to deer: 

 their general effect in groups, is compara- 

 tively meagre and spotty; but their wild 

 appearance, their lively action, their sud- 

 den bounds, and the intricacy of their 

 branching horns, are circumstances in the 

 highest degree picturesque. 



Wild and savage animals, like scenes of 

 the same description, have generally a 

 marked and picturesque character : and as 

 such scenes are less strongly impressed with 

 that character when all is calm and serene^ 

 than when the clouds are agitated and va- 

 riously tossed about, so whatever may be 

 the appearance of any animal in a -tranquil 

 state, it becomes more picturesque, when 

 suddenly altered by i the influence of some 

 violent emotion; and it is curious to ob- 

 serve how all that disturbs inward calm, 

 produces a correspondent roughness with- 

 out. The bristles of the chafed and foam- 

 ing boar — the quills on the fretful porcu- 

 pine — are suddenly raised by sudden emo- 

 tion; and the angry lion exhibits the same 

 picturesque marks of rage and fierceness, 



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