Such are the bush-hens, the wood-turkeys, the galenae, the peacocks, the white duck and the white goose, all of which, though now wild as the hawk, are well known to have been once tame.
There were deer, red and fallow, in numerous parks and chases of very old time, and these, having got loose, and having such immense tracts to roam over unmolested, went on increasing till now they are beyond computation, and I have myself seen a thousand head together.

Within these forty years, as I learn, the roe-deer, too, have come down from the extreme north, so that there are now three sorts in the woods.
Before them the pine-marten came from the same direction, and, though they are not yet common, it is believed they are increasing.

For the first few years after the change took place there seemed a danger lest the foreign wild beasts that had been confined as curiosities in menageries should multiply and remain in the woods.

But this did not happen.
Some few lions, tigers, bears, and other animals did indeed escape, together with many less furious creatures, and it is related that they roamed about the fields for a long time.

They were seldom met with, having such an extent of country to wander over, and after a while entirely disappeared.