354 Mr. Barker’s Account of a 
Though the horns are fo much larger than thofe of any flag 
I have ever feen, yet, from the futures in the Ikull appearing 
very diftindt in it, one would fuppofe that it was not the head 
of a very old animal. 1 have one of the horns nearly entire, 
and the greateff part of the other, but fo broken in the getting 
otit of the rock, that one part will not join to the other, as the 
parts of the other horn do. The horns are of that fpecies 
which park-keepers in this part of the country call throffle-neft 
horns, from the peculiar formation of the upper part of them,, 
which is branched out into a number of fhort antlers which form- 
al! hollow about large enough to contain a thruflfs neff. I fend 
you the dimenlions of the different parts of them, compared 
with the horns of the fame fpecies of a large ffag,. which have 
probably hung in the place from whence 1 procured them two 
or th ree or perhaps more centuries ; and with another pair of horns, 
of a different kind, which are terminated by one (ingle pointed 
antler, and which were the horns of a feven-year-old ffag. 
The river Larked runs down the valley, and part of it fail’s 
into the quarry where thefe. horns were found, the water of 
winch has not the property of incruffing any bodies it paffes. 
through. It is therefore probable,, that the animal to which 
thefe horns belonged was wafhed into the place where they 
were found, at the time of fome of thofe convulsions which 
contributed to raife this part of the ifland* out of the fea. Be- 
lides this complete head, I have feveral pieces of horns, bones, 
(particularly the fcapula I mentioned' above)* and lever al ver- 
tebra! of the back, found in the fame quarry ; fome, if not all, 
of them probably belonging to the animal whofe head is in my 
poffeflion. 
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