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and prefented to the Earl of EJfex^ then Governor of 
Ireland, who gave them his Grace. 
To thefe I fliould add many more Inftances of the 
like, as thofe found by the late Lord Mount joy^ near 
his Houfe at Newtown-Steivart ; and thofe kept at 
Stockalkn in the County of Meath^ for to my Know- 
ledge within lefs than Twenty Years, above Twenty, 
I might fafely fay, Thirty Pair #^ thefe fort of Horns 
have been dug up in ftveral places of this Country, all 
found by Accident; and'^we may well fuppofe vaft 
Numbers ftill remain undiftovered, but to mention any 
more of them particularly would be tedious, and to lit- 
tle purpofe, fince thefe may fufficc plainly to fliew, 
this Creature was formerly Common with us in Ireland; 
and an Indigenous Animal^ not peculiar to any Territory 
or Province, but univerfally met with in all parts of 
the Kingdom. 
For if we draw a Line through the feveral Places of 
this Ifland where thefe Heads have been found, viz. 
the County of Clare^ the County of Dullin, and the 
County of Farmanagh:, omitting thofe other parts I 
have mentioned, we iball make a Triangle whoft 
fliorteft Side will be in length above an Hundred EogliSi > 
Miles, which is near as large a Figure of this Sort, as 
-we can well defcribe in the Map of Ireland. 
And befides, we may reafbnably, I think, gather ^ 
That they were not only common in this Country, but 
by what Mr. Oshrn mentions in his Letter to my Bro- 
ther, That they were ^ Gregarious Animaly as the Na- 
turalifts call them, or fuch a fort of Creature as affe<3: 
naturally keeping together in Herds ; as we fee the Fal- 
Im Deer mth us, aad as 'tis reported of the Elches in 
E.eee, Sweden.,-: 
