CONCLUSION. 
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Having finished our sketch of this important 
tribe of animals, we would wish to impress upon in- 
dividuals abroad the imperfect knowledge we yet 
possess of a very great number of these animals, 
which seem capable of being applied to so many of 
the wants of mankind. Many gentlemen follow with 
great keenness the sports of the field, and undergo 
great fatigue, and risk much dangei ; and a little at- 
tention at the conclusion of their day’s sport, and a 
little care of some of the animals killed, besides 
those which are good for the table, would, in time, 
add to our knowledge, and would greatly increase 
the pleasure and satisfaction derived from their hunt- 
ing expeditions. T.he skins, perhaps, could not al- 
ways be preserved, but in a warm country, skele- 
tons are easily made, and the skull, with the horns 
attached, are always of much importance in discri- 
minating a species, and have the farther qualification 
of not being easily spoiled or destroyed. Native 
artists, particularly in India, draw with great accu- 
racy; and, next to the animal itself, a correct draw- 
ing is of importance. Immense districts of our pos- 
sessions in every part of the world are yet unex- 
plored ; and, wherever man has gained a footing for 
a short space, the animals are fleeing before him, 
and none more than the ruminants dislike interrup- 
tion, and delight in solitude. Oui’J Indian posses- 
sions are examples of this, in the extirpation of al- 
