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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 111

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, and that thefe alfo do live among other Harts; for there was feen neer a Monaftery,called the Roman Monaftery, by certain Hunters, intheyear 1553. a vulgar Hart with branchedhorns, and his female; andlikewife with a Subulon, or Brocarde, which when in purfuithe wasconftrained to leap from rock to… … Of their horns. They have but one branch growing out of the ftem of their horn,which is not bigger then a mmsfinger , and for this caufe in the rutting time, when they ;oyn with their females, they eafily over-come the vulgar Hart, with his branched and forked horns. The Hunters call this…

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