SE CT.IIk
Holies.
SECT. IV.
Dear.
came into one about two thirds of the back, thence continued as
one to the tail; one tail, four legs ; it had two hearts; two livers,
and all the inwards double, except the primce via, from the ftomach
downwards, which were fingle. It lived four hours, and cried and
lowed with two voices at the lame time. Its figure may be feen
Plate xxiv. Fig. xvn.
Other anomalous productions this fpecies of animals might afford
u s ; but as Nature pleafes moft when Ihe fticks^ to her own rules
and proportions, her few accidental deviations, deformities, arid
monftrous births, have their filifficient and perhaps intended -uw§lVi f
they awaken our gratitude, and make us more attentive to her
cuftomaty and almoft uninterrupted fymmetry and gracefulhefs.
The Cornilh horfes in general, though-'of no great riling, are
remarkably ftrong-limbed; and as our highways are for the moft-
part rough, hard, and ftony, much more ferviceable and lure-footed
than thofe more-fightly ones which are brought from-the ^eaftern
counties : Formerly they were fo -finall in ftature, that-they wtelfe
feized upon as unftatutable; for, by the ftatute of the 12 th of Henry
VIII. every man might feize upon horfes depafturing commons, if
they were under a certain fizeb. They are at prefent rather fm'all,
or but middle fized, elpecially in the coarfer aiid more hilly grounds;
but they are lb much more hardy than others, that they bring a
large price, and aftrong, punch, and fpirited horfe,iswith us gehe-
rally called a Gunhilly, from a wild downs of that name (ftretching
almoft from Helfton to the Lizherd Point) anciently famous for
fiich little horfes.
In this county formerly there was fuch plenty of Deer, that befides
thofe of private gentlemen^ the Duke of Cornwall had one chace or
foreft, and nine parks*. Henry VIII. difparked four of them at once,
'viz. Cary-bullock, Lilkerd, Reftormel, and Lanteglos, near Camel-
ford c;. and at prefent the Duke has no deer-park. The prefent parks
are thofe of Godolphin, belonging to the Earl of Godolphin; Tre-
gothnan, to Lord Vifcount Falmouth; Lanhidroc and Pinchley, both
to Mrs. Hunt; Boconek, to Tho. Pitt, Elq; Caryhayz, to William
Trevanion, Elq; Pencarrow, to J. Molefworth, Elq; Trevetho, to
Humphry Mackworth Praed, Elq; Place, to Humphry Prideaux,
Efq; Tehidy, to Francis Ballet, Elq. A great part of Werington
Park (feat of Humphry Morice, Efq;) is alfo in Cornwall.
Red deer are feldom feen in this county; feme however make
their appearance for a time on the hilly downs about Bodman,
* Car. page 24. e Formerly belonging to the ancient manor of
* Doderidge, p. n8, of the Dutchy of Cornwall. Helfton (alils HeUefluiry) there.
whence
whence they haunt the woods upon the moorsd they are found in
greater plenty in the north betwixt Lancefton and Stratton, as if
they were apprehenfive of wanting room to range if they advanced
mto the narroii weftern parts.
, badger?*,otters, hares,foxes, rabbits, and other wild inferior qua- s e c t . v.
drupeds, Cornwall has its fhare, but nothing particular: I lhall only
obferve, .that they will get rift of their wildnefs by time and gentle ufege,
of which tameioxes which have been trained up like fpanicls to attend
their mafter,-and rabbits ufed to chambers, frequently convince us;
but the moft markable, inftancc I have met with of the force of
cmlom in this point, is that of a hare, which had not only Ihook
off, its wildnefej but the. fearfulnels fo natural to, and almoft infe-
parable from^is creature: It was fo familiar, that it took bread
outT>fr niy hand the firft time I law i t ' ; it lay down under a chair
m the parlour, and,was in all refpeds as gentle, free, and cafy as
adapjdog.: It went opt into the garden nowgpd then,,and after
EegaJ i^ it fp lf with | the, herbage, returned into f f i houfe asits proper
habitation. The mafter + had an old fpaniel and a g^hbund,
both fo fond of hare-hunting that they would by concert go out
together; frequently upon the feent, and had been obfcrved to kill
many h^es without the direction o f huntlman or’other affiftance;
the greyhound in particular was once difcovered by a neighbour following
(who knew nothing of., it) with a hare in his
mouth; with thefe two dogs, lo fond of their ulual prey at other
times, the tame hare Ipent his evenings by the lame fire, and fre-
^qujently-refted in their bolbm.
It is faid , ..that even a Norway bear has for many years been
known to follow .the herds of cattle like a centinel, and to Hand
tamely by, as the maid was milking, and that he always drove the wolf
away. The lame author informs us, that the otter may be made
tame, and ufed to a houfe, by being fed with milk, and become in
time a daily filher for his mafter,, go out on command, and bring
in one filh after another into the kitchen *.
■ Other properties of brutes are ftill more worthy of.our notice. Firft, s e c t . v i .
The great variety of fhape and colour obfervable in the quadrupeds T1“ ProPer~
prevents any two from being exactly alike, as much as the human o?qmu!m-"
features diftinguilh mankind one from another. Wherefore then p^s‘
was this variety bellowed upon brutes ? Are they at all fenfible
of fuch diverfity? Are they the more happy, or more ufeful to one
d ^ an.tl mentions them, vol. VII. page 117, f The Rev4. Mr. Newcomb, Redor of Dlogan.
about:Dolmeiy Pool. ,,, f Pontopp.. part n. page 14.
• Auguft 20, 1738^ at Blbgan parfonage. * Ibid, page 17* ’
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