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curing the animal alive ; and says, that when 

 transported to another climate, it soon dies. M. 

 Regnard mentions some that were brought to 

 Dantzick; where, being unable to endure the heat of 

 the climate, they all perished. Queen Christina, of 

 Sweden, procured five and twenty, which she pur- 

 posed sending to Oliver Cromwell: they were 

 brought as far as Stockholm ; but the Laplanders 

 who attended them refusing to come to England, 

 fifteen of the number were killed by the Wolves, 

 and the remaining ten did not long survive, the 

 climate being considered as too warm. 



To those brought over by Sir H. G. Liddell, five 

 more were added the year following. They pro- 

 duced young ones, and gave promising hopes of 

 thriving in this country : but, unfortunately, some 

 of them were killed ; and the others died, in con- 

 sequence of a disorder similar to that called the rot 

 in Sheep, which was attributed to the richness of 

 the grass whereon they fed. Nor can we wonder at 

 the failure of this spirited enterprize, when we con- 

 sider, that it is the sole employment of the 

 Laplander to tend and herd his Rein- Deer, to drive 

 them in the summer time to the summits of the 

 mountains, to the sides of clear lakes and streams, 

 and to lead them where they can find the most 

 proper food. Want of knowledge or attention to 

 minute particulars, is sufficient to overturn the 

 best-laid plans. 



There is, however, little doubt but this animal 

 will live without the Lapland lichen; to which, 

 perhaps, it only hath recourse, because there is in 

 those latitudes no other sustenance during the 

 winter. It is also, in England, free from its mortal 

 enemy the gadfly. But as the desire of possessing 



