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Beds where they grew, when once the Supply of ufuaf 
Nourifliment is ftopt ; this Analogy that Nature ob- 
ftrves in calling the Horns of Beafts and dropping the 
Fruit of Trees, will appear much more evident to any 
one that will obferve the end of a Stalk, from which 
a ripe Orange or any fuch large Fruit has been lately fe- 
ver'd, and the Butt end of a call Horn where it fafien^d 
to the Os Frontis: for by comparing them together, he 
fhall find fo great a Congruity in the fhape ©f Ibth, 
that 'twill be apparent Nature works according to the 
fame Mechanifm in one as in t'other. 
Difcourfing one Day with his Excellency the Lord 
Capelly then one of the Lord Juflices of Ireland, an ex- 
perienc'd and accurate Oblcrver of the Works of Nature, 
I chanced to mention thefe Large Horns: He was very 
carneft to fee them, and fo mightily furpris'd at the 
fight of their extraordinary Bulk, that my Brother 
thought fit to make a Prefent of them to his Lordfliip, 
which he obligingly accepted ; refolving to fend them 
over, as he faid, to his Majefty King William, 
Such another Head, with both the Horns intire was 
found (bme Years fince by one Mr. Van Delure in the 
County of t^lare, buried Ten Foot under Ground, in' a 
fort of Marie, and were prefented by him to the late 
Duke of Ormond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who 
valued them (o highly for their prodigious largenefs, 
that he thought them not an unfit Prefent for the "King, 
and fent them for England to King Charles the Se<rond, 
who ordered them to befet up in the Horn-Gallery at 
Hampton-Court:, where they may Hill be feen among 
^he refl of the large Heads both of Stags and Bucks 
that adorn that Place, but thisfo vaftly exceeds the lar- 
gefl of them, that the reft appear to lofe much of their 
Curiofity 
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