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 a crown-deer (full-antler'd red deer)." Rütimeyer calls it the peat cow, and, from specimens found in Swiss late dwellings, describes it thus : " The race which clearly predominated through the whole Stone Age and was found chiefly, though not exclusively, in the formations which we, upon other grounds, reckon among the oldest in Wangen and Mooseedorf, I may safely call the Peat Race, or the Peat Cow. Its chief characteristic, as shown by its remains, apart meantime from the skull, is the small length and height of its body, and the exceptionally short but remarkably fine and delicate limbs, right from the shoulder to the extreme terminal phalanges, which apparently carried very small hoofs."

From British and Irish skeletons, Owen