76 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
ever, it may be urged that the fact of the horn 
having been found ‘deep down below the surface” 
seems opposed to the theory of recent origin. 
Several attempts have been made from time to 
time to reintroduce the Reindeer in Great Britain, 
but without much success. Sir Henry Liddell, who 
made a tour through Sweden and Lapland, brought 
five Reindeer to his estate in Northumberland, 
where they bred, and for some time seemed likely 
to thrive; but they did not live long.* Fleming 
refers to an experiment of the kind made by the 
Duke of Athole (“ Hist. British Animals,” p. 27), 
and Scrope says the Earl of Fife introduced some 
into the great forest of Marr in Aberdeenshire 
(“Days of Deerstalking,” p. 406). But they all 
died, notwithstanding their being turned out on 
the summits of the hills, which are covered with 
dry moss, and on which it was supposed they would 
be able to subsist. Some years previously to this, 
a similar experiment had been tried in Orkney, 
where Mr. Robert Traill, in 1816, turned out three 
Reindeer, a male and two females, which he had im- 
ported from Archangel. But they soon died, towards 
the end of winter—from want, it was believed, 
of their proper ‘food, in addition to the supposed 
unsuitability of the climate. It is stated by Messrs. 
Baikie and Heddlet that “not being found to 
answer the purposes intended, they were allowed to 
die out.” 
* Consett’s ‘Tour through Sweden,” p. 152. 
+ “ Hist, Nat. Orcadensis,” p. 19. 
