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On the other hand, this species must have been at one time 

 very abundant in Great Britain, no fewer than 1000 horns 



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having been discovered by Col. Wood in some of the Welsh 

 caves. 



As far as we can judge from the present evidence, the first 

 appearance of the reindeer in Europe coincided with that of 

 the mammoth, and took place at a later period than that of 

 the cave-bear or Irish elk. It is generally found wherever 

 the mammoth and woolly- haired rhinoceros occur; but, on 

 the other hand, as its remains are abundant in some of the 

 bone-caves in which the gigantic Pachyderms are wanting, it 

 is probable that it survived to a still later period. The rein- 

 deer, has not, however, been found in the Kjokkenmoddings 

 of Denmark, nor in any of the tumuli of England, France, or 

 Germany. It is also wanting in the Swiss lake villages, 

 although we know that it was at one time an inhabitant of 

 Switzerland, bones of it having been found in a cave at 

 L'Echelle, between the great and little Saleve, near Geneva, 

 where they were mixed with worked flints, ashes, and remains 

 of the ox and horse. 



As might naturally have been expected, remains of the 

 reindeer occur in the peat mosses of Sweden, as well as 

 in those of Scotland and England. It is not, however, 

 represented on any of the ancient British or Gallic coins. 

 Csesar, indeed, mentions it as existing in the great Her- 

 cynian forest ; but his description is both imperfect and in- 

 correct. He seems to have heard of it only at second-hand, 

 and never to have met with anybody who had actually seen 

 one. It does not appear to have ever been exhibited in the 

 Kornaii circus. 



Buffon stated on the authority of Gaston, Comte de Foix, 

 that in his time (1331 to 1390) the reindeer still lived in 

 the south of France. Cuvier, however, by examining an 

 ancient manuscript, sent by Gaston himself to Philippe le 



