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rein-deer into this country, but yet without success, 

 chiefly, it appears, from the improper selection of a 

 place to which they might retire on their first land- 

 ing- 

 Following the rein-deer, we advance to another 

 series of animals, where the horns still retain a pal- 

 mated form, but they have been arranged in a divi- 

 sion or subgenus, from the circumstance of the base 

 arising from the burr being rounded, the horns as- 

 suming the pal mated form only at the top ; it has 

 also no canine teth, and the muzzle is completely 

 formed. It has been denominated Dama, and will 

 ht illustrated by 



