REIN DEER. 269 



The teeming earth did never bring 

 So soon, BO hard, no huge a thing: 

 Which, might it never have been cast 

 (Each year's growth added to the last), 

 These lofty branches had supply'd 

 The earth's hold son's prodigious pride : 

 Heav'n with these engines had been scal'd, 

 When mountains heap'd on mountains fail'd." 



REIN DEEK. 



Cervus Tarandus. C. cornibus rainosit recvrratis tcretibiu; tvm- 

 ntitatibus pnlmatis. Lm. Sytt. Nat. p. 98. 



Deer with branched, recurvate, round horns, with palmated ex- 

 tremities. 



Tarandus. Pliit. Hist. Nat. 8. c. 34. Aldr. bisulc. p. 859. and 

 Jig. p. 86 1. Jonst. Quadr. p. 90. t. 37. 36. 



Rangifer. Gem. Quadr. p. 950. ic. Quadr. p. 62. 



Cervus rangifer. Hay. tyn. Quadr. 88. 



Le Renne. Buff. u. p. 79. and Suppl. 3. p. 131. pi. 18. 



Rein Deer. Pennant Quadr . i.p. in. 



THE Rein Deer, like the Elk, is an inhabitant 

 of the northern regions. In Europe its chief re- 

 sidence is in Norway and Lapland. In Asia it 

 frequents the north coast as far as Kamtschatka, 

 and the inland parts as far as Siberia. In Ame- 

 rica it occurs in Greenland, and does not extend 

 farther south than Canada *. The height of a full 

 grown Rein Deer is, according to Mr. Pennant, 

 four feet six inches : the body is of a some -what 

 thick and square form ; and the legs shorter in 

 proportion than those of the stag. Its general 



* Pennant. 



