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{I)me of the pad Seafons long fince the Flood, whkh 
might occafion a-a EpiJemick Dtfiemper^ if we mav fb 
cali ir, or Pejlilential Murren, pccuharly to affcd: this 
fort of Creature, fo as to defiroy at once great Num- 
bers of em, if not quite ruine the Species. 
And this is not fo groundlefs an Aflertion as at firft 
it may appear, if we confider this Ifland may very well 
be thought neither a Country nor Climate fo truly 
proper and natural to this Animal, as to be perfe(9:ly 
agreeable to its temper; fince for ought I can yet learn 
if neither is,nor ever has been an Inhabitant of any of the 
adjacent Kingdoms round about us. And befides, the 
Three Heads above mentioned, found fb clofe to one 
another in the County of Meath^ and the Two near 
turvy, feems not a little to countenance this Opinion; 
as if thefe Animals dyed together in Namiersy as they 
had lived together in Herds. 
To this purpofe I have met with a remarkable Paf- 
f^ge in Scheffers Defer ipt ion of Lapland^ Chap. x8. 
fpeaking of the Cervus Rangifer, an Animal that agrees 
in Kind with ours, though u be a quite different Sort 
oi Deer, he fays that whole Herds of them are often 
deftroy'd by a Raghg Dtjiemper common among thenv; 
frhefeare his Words: EJl (S Morhis fuis gems hoc 06' 
noxmm qui ft ingrumt Gregem totum folent pervagare & 
ad necem dare ; qua de re Johannes Bur ens it a halet in 
Schedis fuiSf folet inter dum Rangifer os morlus quidam 
velut Pejiis invader e fic ut moriantur omnes Lappeq; 
compellatur novos ftbi comparare Rangifer os (c). By 
CcJ TYxTit is, this Kind of Creature is likewife fubjeft to itsDifeafes; 
which if they feize a Flock, goes through them all j concerning which 
Johannes Bureus has it thus in his Papers ^ fometimes a fort of Difeafe af- 
ter the manner of a Plague^ affefts the Rain Deer, fo as they alJ dye, and 
the Laplander is forced to fupply himfelf with new Kaia Deer. 
which 
