OP DEER IN GENERAL. 



and expand gradually, till they have attained their 

 fullest extent for that year; when they drop off, 

 and make room for the shoot which is to succeed 

 in the ensuing season. The size of the horns, and 

 the number of branches, augment every year till 

 they have arrived at the largest size that they at- 

 tain; and, after this period, they expand to the 

 same large size every season. In some species, the 

 horns are rounded through their whole length, and 

 through all their branches; whilst in others, they 

 are palmated, or flattened to a very considerable 

 breadth. 



Of the foreign animals belonging to the present 

 tribe, those best known are the Rein-deer and 

 Elk*. The former is a native of Norway, Lapland, 

 and other cold regions of the continent of Europe; 

 and the latter, of deep forests and extensive mo- 

 rasses of various parts of North America. They are 

 each domesticated, and trained to labour as beasts 

 of draught and burthen. The Rein-deer is a spe- 

 cies, the character and uses of which are well ascer- 

 tained. The Elk seems chiefly interesting on ac- 

 count of its enormous size, being by far the largest 

 known animal of its tribe. The Indians who fre- 

 quent Hudson's Bay, speak, however, of a species 

 of Deer, greatly superior to it in size, which, they 



Ccrvus tarandus and cervus alcus of Linnaeus. 



Z assert, 



