THE RAIN-DEER. 317 



confounded them, or exhibited them under e- 

 quivocal denominations, which are equally ap- 

 plicable to both. The Greeks knew neither the 

 elk nor the rain-deer ; for Ariftotle * makes no 

 mention of them : And, among the Latins, Julius 

 Caefar is the firft who employed the word Alee. 

 Paufaniusf, who wrote about a century after 



Caefar, 



pite ferat alta cornua velut quos quercinarum arborum ra- 

 mos : Alia quod inTlrumenta cornibus peclorique, quibus 

 hiemalia plauftra trahit impofita Rancha et Locha, patrio fer- 

 mone vocantur ; Ola: Magn'i. biji. de gent. fept. p. 135. 



Rangier or Ranglier ; Gaflon de Foix apud dit Fouillsux, 

 p. 90. 



Tarandus, Rangifer ; Gefner quad. p. 839. Icon. quad. p. 

 57. Ald r ov. de quad, bifulc. p. 859. 



Cervus mirabilis ; JohnHon, de quad. tab. 36. Munjler Cof- 

 vtog. p. 1054. 



Cervus rangifer ; Rati fynopf. quad. p. 88. Klein, quad. p. 23. 



Daim de Greenland; Edwards; Hiji. des Oifeaux, part. 1. 

 p. S t. 



Cervus cornuum fummitatibus omnibus palmatis ; Brijbn. 

 regn. anim. p. 92. 



Cervus Tarandus, cornibus ramofis, recurvatis, teretibuS, 

 fummitatibus palmatis; Linn, fy ft. not. p 93. 



Rein-deer; Schaeffer. Juppl. p. 82. 129 Le Brun's travels, 

 vol. l. p. 10. Oeuzres de Mauptrtuis, torn. 3. p. 198. Yi 

 d'Uthier, p. 141. Hiji. Kamtfckatka, p. 228. Bell's travels, vol. I. 

 p. 213. Martin's Spitzberg. p. 99. Grantz't Greenland, vol. i.p, 

 70. Egede Greenl. p. 60. Dobb's Hudfon's Bay, p. 20. 22. Voyage 

 au Hudf. Bay ; torn. 2. p. 1 7. 



Rheno ; Linn. Amocn. Acad. p. 4. 



La Caribou ; Ch.irhvoix, Hiji. Nouv. France, torn. 5. p. 19c, 



* We have frown, under the article Axis, that the hippela- 

 phus of Ariilotle is not the elk. 



f Argumento funt iEthiopici tauri et a Ices ferae Celticae, 

 ex quibus mares cornua in fuperciliis habent, foemina caret. 



Paufajt. 



