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which we may fee what we conjecJture In our Cafe, is 
not meer Suppofuion, but certainly happens elfewhere 
to Animals of the like Kind. ' 
But fince we have an Inftance of fo deftrudive a 
Mortaiity among Beads as quite to extinguifli a whob 
Species at once, we may think (ome might have efca- 
ped the Common Calamity ; but thefe being (b few in 
Number, I imagine as the Country became peopled, 
and thickly inhabited they v/ere foon deftroy'd, and 
Ifili'd like other Venifon as welt for the lake of Food as 
Maftery and Diverfion. And indeed none of thefe Ani^ 
mals by reafon of their Stupendioiis Bulk and Wide 
Spreading Horns could poffibly iye fliekered long in any 
Place, but muft be foon dlftovered, and being fo con« 
fpicuous and heavy were the mor<e eafily purfued and 
taken by their numerous Hunters, in a Country all en« 
vironed by the Sea : For had they been on the wide 
Continent they might have fared better, and ftcured 
themftlves and their Race till this time, as well as others 
of the fame Kind have done cirewhere. Of which 
more hereafter. 
Or had thofe Barbarous Times been capable of taking 
Care for the Prefervation of this ftately Creature, pur 
Country wpuld not have entirely loft fo fingular and 
beautiful an Ornament : But this could not be expeflred 
from thofe favage Ages of the World, which certainly 
would riot have fpared the reft of the Deer Kind, Stags 
and Hinds, Bucks and Does, which we ftiil have,* but 
that thefe be\ng of muph fmaller Size, could fhelter 
and coaceai themfelves eafier under the Covert of 
Woods and Mountains, fo as toefcape utter Deftruilion. 
And 
