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THE REIN-DEER. 

 (Cervm Tarandus^ Linn. Le Renne, Buff.) 



THIS extraordinary animal is a native of the icy 

 regions of the North ; where, by a wise and boun- 

 tiful dispensation, which diffuses the common goods 

 of nature over every part of the habitable globe, it 

 is made subservient to the wants of a hardy race of 

 men inhabiting the countries near the pole, who 

 would find it impossible to subsist among their 

 snowy mountains without the aid of this most use- 

 ful creature. 



In more temperate regions, men are indebted to 

 the unbounded liberality of nature for a great 

 variety of valuable creatures to serve, to nourish, 

 and to cloath them. To the poor Laplander, the 

 Rein-Deer alone supplies the place of the Horse, 



