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dred to two hundred and forty pounds. This 

 kind never leaves the woods, but its skin is as 

 much perforated by the gad-fly as that of the 

 others ; a presumptive proof that the smaller 

 species are not driven to the sea-coast solely by 

 the attacks of that insect. There are a few rein- 

 deer occasionally kUled in the spring, whose 

 skins are entire, and these are always fat, whereas 

 the others are lean at that season. This insect 

 hkewise infests the red-deer (wawashecshj but 

 its ova are not found in the skin of the moose, 

 or buffalo, nor, as we have been informed, of the 

 sheep and goat that inhabit the Rocky Mountains, 

 although the rein-deer found in those parts,(whichi 

 by the way, are of an unusually large kind,) are 

 as much tormented by them as the barren-ground 

 variety. 



The herds of rein-deer are attended in their 

 migrations by bands of wolves, which destroy a 

 great many of them. The Copper Indians kill 

 the rem-deer in the summer with the gun or 

 taking advantage of a favourable disposition of 

 the ground, they enclose a herd upon a neck of 

 land, and drive them into a lake, where they fall 

 an easy prey ; but in the rutting season and in 

 the spring, when they are numerous on the skirts 

 of the woods, they catch them in snares. The 

 snares are simple nooses, formed in a rope made 



