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 3«» /THE HI STOR Y • JBoqU._ itfHf mi at leaft as How* And that could have jbeen only the Britifh £egh or Moofe. In this and ooly ia this de%nation of tht dqgt ^'hitremaduble qualities ar« properly opnablned toge- ther* and fame all of them their proper objeft. The great built of the game required a proportionate fiae in the hunter, as the ftrcngth of die one mofthave been in ftw>e n>c^ure cx^reipaad* ent to the ftrcngth of the other. The &raud?ble armoury, which the ftgh carried about Mm kt the fpreading branches ,o£ hit pointed antlers repaired the fegb-dog at once to be animated with a very cauiiderable degree of reiblutkm for the attack, and to W foroifhed with fharp ftrong feqgs for the hold. And a& the fluwndft of pace in the latter *e&lted from the fame cayfe with arid was therefore juftly adapted to the flownefs of pace; ill thefettoav ft) was it fnfiiciei>tly .compensated tot the latter by. the ©dularatiag thradef of it9 laquth aod the fure fenfibility of its note* The wolf* which, is. nothing more perhaps than a wilder fpe- cies of dogs and ia therefore denominated Madre Allaidh or the wild dog by the Irifli to the prefent day, is well known to have beep harboured in England for ages after this period, actually continued in Scotland to the commencement of the laft century, and ab£4ptely remained in Ireland to the prefent 7 . The boar is qguattjr known to have been an inhabitant of our woods* is repre- fented qa a coin of Ctinobelihe beneath the (hade of a tree, it particularly celebrated in a Roman-Britifh infeription, and re- mained with us fever^l centuries after the wolf"! But our woods alio hsed a number of wild bulls at this period. The qommpa cattle of the ifland mult have frequently run wild along our heaths and forefts, and have naturally a tendency to a life of ft vage liberty at prefent. The domeftic cattle of Europe now range wildly in herds along the grafly levels of Faragonia. And the wild cows and wild bulls of the ifTand continued very frequent among us in the fourth century, and remained even nine or tett centuries afterward ". Thefe were enormoufly tyijge and buft#v ^U milkrwhke in their appearance, all. briftled with -tHSpfc msucsr / J