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Of the other wild beasts of this hill-district, the commonest is that known to the inhabitants as the loup-cervier, a name oddly enough misconstructed by a writer on Canadian sports into "Lucifer." This is the true lynx, a huge cat with long and remarkably thick legs, paws in which dangerous claws are sheathed, and short tail.
But this is not the case with their confrères who reside in the uplands, amongst the arid and volcanic mountains, without roads, and the thickly timbered hill-district which joins the Nivernais.
All the northern part of the county the Thames valley and Vale of White Horse, and the hill-district which separates these from the Vale of Kennet was at that time pierced only by cross-country roads, and remained during the pre-railroad era one of the most primitive districts of the West of England.
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