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long and weak legs, are naturally stupid, and a boy- 

 can drive them where he will with a switch, but 

 they cannot be made to carry a load on their back.^ 



Head of Male Elk (Aldrovandus, 1621) 



Aldrovandus, a writer on natural history, and 

 professor in the university at Bologna, treats of 

 the elk at considerable length. He quotes freely 

 from all the writers who had given accounts of the 

 elk, from Caesar down to his own day, but his 



' Cosmographia Universalis' (Basel, 1554), pp. 784-785. 



