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All travellers agree in stating that there is no kind of covering so fitted for the Arctic regions, nr 

 so capable of resisting intense cold, as the skin of the rein-deer. "The hairs coni|ini; their > 

 says Mr. Brooke, "are, indeed, to thick, that it is hardly possible, by separating them in any wav, tu 



