200 A JOURNEY TO THE 
1771. Hudfon’s Bay. A long refidence among the In-~ 
by here dians has enabled me to confirm this aflertion — 
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with great confidence, as I have feen deer killed 
every day throtghout the year; and when J) 
have mentioned this circumftance to the Indians, _ 
either Northern or Southern, they always affured | 
me that they never obferved any fuch fymptoms. — 
With equal truth I can affert, and that from ~ 
ocular demonftration, that the animal which is © 
called the Alpine Hare in Hudfon’s Bay, atually 
undergoes fomething fimilar to that which is vul- 
garly afcribed to the Englith deer. I have feen 
and handled feveral of them, who had been kill. — 
ed juft after they had coupled in the Spring, % | 
with the penifes hanging out, dried up, and fhri- | 
welled, like the navel-ftring of young animals ; 
and on examination I always found a paflage 
through them for the urine to pafs. I have 
thought proper to give this remark a place in my 
Journal, becaufe, in all probability, it is not gene- 
rally known, even to thofe gentlemen who have 
qnade natural hiftory their chief ftudy; and if” 
their refearches are of any real utility to mankind, © 
it is furely to be regretted that Providence 
fhould have. placed the greateft part of them too 
remote from want to be obliged to travel for — 
ocular proots of what they affert in their publica- 
tions; they are therefore witely content to ftay © 
at home, and enjoy the bleflings with which they 
are endowed, refling fatisfied to collect fuch in-— 
formation for their own amufement, and the 
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