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now are; and as the Elk and Stag are distinctly named in the 
same verse besides the Schelch, some other beast of the 
chase is obviously indicated, which may thus have been the 
Megaceros, for anything that can be positively asserted to the 
contrary. 
Lastly, Whitaker, the historian, of Manchester, thinks 
that the Moose Deer, as he calls our animal, was in existence 
while the Romans occupied England, and even that the race 
of dogs by which it was hunted, still survive as the Segh Hound 
of the ancient Britons. Archdeacon Maunsell, in his letter to 
LordNorthland, says, — " I have also a skull of a dog of a 
large kind, (at least, of a carnivorous animal), which I found 
lying close to some of the remains of the Deer, and which I 
will transmit with the bones of his old acquaintance." Now 
this might have belonged to one of the pursuers of the Deer, 
either Dog or Wolf, killed by the powerful horns of the latter, 
when at bay ; or it may have been that of a Bear, which, I 
have already noticed, was a contemporary inhabitant of the 
district. Dr. Hibbert states, in the Edinburgh Philosophical 
Journal, that there is a Runic monument at St. Michael's, in 
the Isle of Man, representing an animal of the Deer kind 
with broad horns, which are extremely large in comparison 
with those of other animals engraved on the same monument, 
in the act of being worried by a Dog. He also inserts a 
communication which he had received from Dr. Milligan, of 
Edinburgh, to the effect that, in the latter part of 1824, three 
large Elks had been dug up in Ireland, and near them, in a 
stratum of marl, were found the skeletons of three Dogs, and 
at a little distance were discovered the skeletons of several 
Men. This last circumstance I have not seen substantiated 
by any subsequent writer, which, from its important character, 
is somewhat remarkable, and leads to the suspicion that there 
is some error in the statement, at least as regards the human 
skeletons. Pepper, however, in his History of Ireland, 
