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CHAP. VII.]
HUNTING OF URUS.
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M. Massenat to be a bison, but the double curvature, as well as the length of the horns, prove that it was the urus,

Fig. 77.—The Hunting of the Ursus, Duruthy Cave. 1/2

an animal which was hunted in the forests of Aachen (Aix la Chapelle) by the Emperor Charles the Great in the ninth century after Christ. Another hunting scene[1]

  1. Rel. Aq., B. Pl. 2, Fig. 8.