. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . Y OF QUADRUPEDS. 149 or artifice, eluded all Its purfuers. It happened, duringthe rigour of a fevere winter, that, being purfued, Itcrofled the river upon the ice with fome difficulty; and,being much ftralned by Its violent exertions, was takenalive. It was kept for fome weeks in the houfe, andwas then again turned out •, but all its cunning and adll-vity were gone j it feemed to have forgotten the places ofits former retreat; and, after running fome time, it laiddown in the midft of a brook, where It was killed by thedogs. The
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . Y OF QUADRUPEDS. 149 or artifice, eluded all Its purfuers. It happened, duringthe rigour of a fevere winter, that, being purfued, Itcrofled the river upon the ice with fome difficulty; and,being much ftralned by Its violent exertions, was takenalive. It was kept for fome weeks in the houfe, andwas then again turned out •, but all its cunning and adll-vity were gone j it feemed to have forgotten the places ofits former retreat; and, after running fome time, it laiddown in the midft of a brook, where It was killed by thedogs. The flelh of the Roe-buck is fine and well-tafted :That of the male, after the age of two years, is hard ;the flefh of the females, though farther advanced inyears, Is more tender: When very young, it Is loofeand foft; but at the age of eighteen months, is in itshigheft ftate of perfection. In America, the Roe-buck Is much more commonthan in Europe.—In Loulfiana, it is very large.—The in-habitants live chiefly upon its flefli, which is goo4 K3 150 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS.
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