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them in their summer migrations to the coast or to the 
mountains, and to conduct them on the return of winter 
to the woods and plains of the interior. But in so 
doing he relinquishes none of the enjoyments of life ; 
for there is nothing in the desolate country which he 
inhabits to bind him to one spot more than to another. 
It would occupy too much of our space, and would 
be besides more strictly within the province of the 
economist than of the naturalist, to give a detailed his- 
tory of the Rein-deer in its domesticated state. Those 
who would seek for information on this subject will 
find much to interest them in the travels of Von Buch, 
of Dr. Clarke, and more especially of Mr. de Capell 
Brooke, whose Winter in Lapland furnishes a highly 
graphic sketch both of the Laplander and his Deer. 
This work contains indeed the most authentic history 
that we have met with of the domestic Deer, of its 
powers, its uses, and its mode of treatment; and is in 
many particulars much fuller of information, and in 
most of its details more diffuse and circumstantial, than 
the excellent dissertation published by Linneus under 
the name of his pupil Hoffberg, and reprinted in the 
fourth volume of his invaluable Amenitates Acade- 
mice. 
In like manner, and for the same reason, we shall 
abstain from entering upon the question, so much de- 
bated a few years since, of the possibility of the intro- 
duction of the Rein-deer into Great Britain, further 
than to remark that one of the most striking peculiarities 
in their habits appears to have been entirely lost sight 
of in the discussion. We allude to their migratory 
disposition, for which no allowance has been made in 
any of the attempts to settle them in this country. 
They appear for the most part to have been turned 
out into a park or enclosed ground, in which the 
