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Show The la.t refuge r the , Ik in (lertmny, and tin, wily pi.. li, tlmt country In which il L. now found, la the lb- nliiint foro.lnvarTII.lt. In the Middle Agn the wild elk wat found nil o,r(lr-miiiy, o,r(lr-miiiy, and alter IS'W it I. frciiui ntly lne-ntlniin-1 at npiearing III l'oluernnlag btit during the l.it two crntiirlet It has riltappetr-l Tho lost elk In Baiouy nn. killed hi 1746, and tho hit cmo In dletla. In Urn Altlioiigli the auluiiel was frequently tu lie mot with In Uet l'rimlri In ihe tlmo cf rredi-rlok tho Urent, that monarch finmef It iiet-etsary tu Ittiiii n decree for Us protection In tho first few yenr. of tho pn-ent century It cxi.ted In cvriablerablo limn-bi limn-bi ra In the fure-Ua of Bchurellen, Ttul-Mini, Ttul-Mini, ami Vknlltcbeu, wlnra favonil r.rwmtwcnieruilltel to hunt It In the)oarlHStherW.U ut limiting In them- fnrvau became general, and clkt very wwu became eitermlnateil It wna only by the muat careful preeori Ing that tlm few Kft lu the lUidmrtt for-rtlswiro for-rtlswiro eared, and their number In-rrauril In-rrauril tu alxiut one liundred. at which It now stands. These forest., with IlidrS uoo acres of high wooelo.1 land, COOOiureaof moor and 10,000 ncreaof alder iwauips, offer to thete animals the most tatorablo eouJitluna of tin. In tho tprlno; they Iavo tho Iilgll Wi - It and moor, und snltnduwti tu the- i-Iit. at thortnntttli ,.f SI,.. M1,I-II. - "- ." "i-uoi v. tuu uniiiTiin itrrim, wlileli nro. thickly grown Willi bu-liet tuul sirclisiilaiits as grow In swampy reKlonJtjCii the winter they nro drlien liatVTji) lira LlgU woods. Kevcrnl of-TlNrrtroW&lrcrj-jenr iliirlng tho tprlng Ilondt. nudlii tpttoortho grcntett care thoy du not Increiisetoany grout cxleut. ImJoii (llubo. |
