EXPERIMENT IN ANIMAL PRESERVATION 171 
Mr. Corbin is a “ railway king/’ who owned a 
property on Long Island. There he amused himself 
by keeping a few deer at his home-farm, not in a 
park, but much as antelopes, elands, and bison are 
kept in the Queen’s stock-yard with the domestic 
cattle at Windsor. This was in 1886. Six years 
later Mr. Corbin conceived and carried out an idea 
for extending his deer-farm on a scale which a com- 
parison with some of the forest areas most familiar to 
Englishmen, scarcely enables us to grasp. He bought 
twenty-two thousand acres in a compact block, and to 
these he subsequently added an adjacent territory of 
eight thousand acres more, and reserved them as a 
sanctuary for all such of the large game of North 
America — with the exception of bears, pumas, wolves, 
and foxes — as could be obtained to stock the ground. 
The area so reserved is larger by a quarter than 
the twenty- two thousand acres of the Forest of Dean. 
Windsor Forest contains barely fourteen thousand 
acres, and the New Forest alone of the ancient game- 
preserves of the Crown exceeds it in dimensions. 
But all these are forests in the proper sense, not 
enclosed parks, the animals of which are fenced in 
and protected. The Corbin preserve is a true park, 
surrounded with a fence high enough to confine a 
wapiti, and strong enough to resist the charge of a 
bull bison, and entered by nine gates, each under the 
supervision of a resident warder. Contrasted with an 
English park, it differs alike in dimensions and general 
purpose. Here the object of the enclosure is to 
