J42 THE ELK AND 



The elk and the rain-deer are both rumina- 

 ting animal:,, as appears from their manner of 

 feeding, and the ftrudure of their inteftines* ; 

 yet Tornacus Scoffer f, liegnard J, Hulden §, 

 and feveral other authors, have maintained that 

 the rain-deer does not ruminate. Ray [|, with 

 much propriety, confiders this opinion as incre- 

 dible ; and, in facl, the rain-deer ** chews the 

 cua as well as all other animals which have ma- 

 ny ftomachs. The duration of life, in the do- 

 meftic rain-deer, exceeds not fifteen or fixteen 



years, 



route of the orignal, climbs a tree near a place where it mufl: 

 pafs, darts upon it, add cut its throat in a moment. In 

 vain the orignal lies down on the ground, or rubs himfelf 

 againft the trees ; for nothing can make the carcajou quit 

 his hold. The hunters have found pieces of his {kin, as 

 large as a man's hand, fucking on the tree againft which the 

 orignal had Gained him ; Hift. de FAcad. dts Sciences, annee 



* The elk, in its internal parts, and particularly in its 

 vels, and four ftomachs, has a considerable refemblance 

 to the ox; i Pbijftoirs dts animaux, part. 1. 



/•• 184. 



mark tble, that, though the rain-deer is cloven 

 I, he does not rumin ie; & .-,/>. 200. 



rd makes the fame obiervaiion, torn. 1. p. 109. 

 ' 5 ant bifujei et corniger:',- attamennon ruminant Rangi- 

 feri ; Hidden, Ra 



inquit Peyerus) mirum videtur animal ilia d 



.1 bifculum, cervrfque 



. deftitui, ut ditmum cenfeam 



arg\ . - curiofbrum, qui bus Renones 



. . nus Peyeriu ; mihi 



. ... .. . incredibUe ; i- 



89. 

 ** R aeque ac aliae fpecies fui 1 is j 



! . 



