II. A Difconrfe eoncerning the Large Horns^ 
frequently found under Ground in frelandj 
Concluding from them that the great Ame- 
rican Deer, caWd a Moofe, wa^ formerly 
common in that IJland With Kemark^ on 
fome other things Natural to that Country, 
By Thomas Molyneux j M. D. Fellow of 
the King and Queens CoUedge of Phyficians 
in Ireland 5 and the Koy^l Socitty in 
England. 
THat no real Species of Living Creatures is fo 
utterly extinft, as to be loft entirely out of the 
World, {ince it was firft Created, is the Opinion of 
many Naturalifts ; and 'tis grounded on fo good a 
Principle of Providence taking Care in general of all 
its Aflimal ProdudionSj that it deferves our Aflent, 
However great Viciffitudes may be obftrved to attend 
the Works of Nature, as well as Humane Affairs \ 
fo that fome entire Species oi Animals, which have 
been formerly Common, nay even numerons in €er- 
tain Countries have, in Procefs of time , been fb 
perfedly loft, as to become there utterly unknown ; 
tho' at the fame time it cannot be denyed, but the 
kind has been carefully preferved in fome other part 
of the World, , 
Of this we have a remarkable Example in Ire- 
landt in amqft large and ftately Beaft, that undoubted- 
ly has been frequent in this Kingdom , tho' now clear- 
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