. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . as he had accomplifhed of the Hounds purfued to the wall; but being un-able to get over it,^ laid down, and almoft immediately expired : The other was alfo found dead at a fmall dif-tance. *< The length of the chafe is uncertain : But, as theywere feen at Red-kirks, near Annan, in Scotland, diftant, * In 1788, Mr Noels pack^vvas fold to Sir Wm LowtherBart, for loco guineas. 350 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. by the pofl-road, about forty-fix miles, it is conjedlured,that the circuitous and uneven courfe they might be fup-pofe
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . as he had accomplifhed of the Hounds purfued to the wall; but being un-able to get over it,^ laid down, and almoft immediately expired : The other was alfo found dead at a fmall dif-tance. *< The length of the chafe is uncertain : But, as theywere feen at Red-kirks, near Annan, in Scotland, diftant, * In 1788, Mr Noels pack^vvas fold to Sir Wm LowtherBart, for loco guineas. 350 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. by the pofl-road, about forty-fix miles, it is conjedlured,that the circuitous and uneven courfe they might be fup-pofed to take, would not be lefs than one hundred andtwenty miles. *« To commemorate this fa£t, the horns of the Stag,which were the largeft ever feen in that part of thecountry, were placed on a tree of a moft enormous fize,in the park, (afterwards called the Hart-horn tree) ac-companied with this infcription :— * Hercules killd Hart oGreece; And Hart oGreece killd Hercules. ««The horns have been fince removed, and are nowat Julians Bower, in the fame HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 351
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