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one-horned ox, and his jointless elk. But is it possible for the Urus to have lived in Germany so long after he was extinct in Britain? and if he lived in Cæsar's time, would he have been called the Ur-ochs? Even so, was the Hercynian forest his likeliest habitation? It is far more easy to imagine either that some diplomatic and genial German had invented a tale to deter the great Roman general and please the imperial note-taker or that Cæsar was really describing the bison.
