CLXXXII 
QUADRUPEDS. 
GR EVEVN LA’ Ne iD; 
led to thefe parts, hath given a moft ample and claflical account of the animals. 
His Fauna Groenlandica is among the firft works of the kind. I eagerly ex- 
pect the performance of the promifed remainder of the work. 
The Quadrupeds of this country are, the Rein-deer, N° 4, which are here 
merely confidered as objects of the chace. Their number is leffened greatly, 
and they are now only found in the moft remote parts. The Ukalcrajek * is, I 
fufpeét, an animal of imagination. It is faid, by the Greenlanders, to be long- 
eared, hare-lipped, and to refemble that animal ; to have a fhort tail ; to be of a 
white color, with a dark lift down the back, and of the fize of a Rein-deer. 
The Docs, p. 41, refemble Wolves in figure, fize, and nature. Left to them- 
felves, they hunt in packs the few animals of the country, for the fake of prey. 
They exaétly refemble the Dogs of the EfRimaux of Labrador. It is probable, 
that they might have been originally brought here by their mafters, who firft fled 
that country, and populated Greenland. Arctic Foxes, N° ro, abound here ; and, 
with Porar Bears, N°18, infeft the country. Had I{not fuch excellent authority, 
I fhould have doubted whether the Wolverene, N° 21, ufually an inhabitant of 
wooded countries, was found in Greenland; but it is certainly met with, yet rarely, in 
the fouthern parts, where it preys on the Rein-deer and White Hares. It muft have 
been originally wafted hither on the ice from Terra de Labrador, the neareft place 
to this, of which it is an inhabitant. The Varyinc Hare, N® 37, is very 
common. The Watrus, and five fpecies of Seals, inhabit thefe feas: the 
Common, N° 72; the Great, N° 73; the Rough, N° 74; the Hooded, N° 76; 
the Harp, N° 77; and an obfcure fpecies, called by the Laplanders, Fatne Vindac, 
with a round head and long fnout, bending like the probofcis of an elephant +. 
Mr. Fabricius adds to the marine animals, the Whale-tailed AZanati, N° 81, of 
which he once faw the head partly confumed. 
The Polar Bears, Seals, and Manati, were originally natives of thefe coun- 
tries. ‘The other Quadrupeds found their way here from either Hud/on’s Bay or 
Labrador, on the iflands of ice. The 4rétic Fox found the fame kind of conveyance 
from Greenland to Iceland as it did with the Rein-deer to Spitzbergen. ‘To the 
laft was wafted, probably from Labrador, the Common Weefel, the Red or Com- 
mon Fox ; and the Moufe, mentioned p. xLix, miffed Greenland, but arrived 
at and ftocked Jceland ; and the Common Bat was originally tempeft-driven to the 
latter from Norway : the Wolverene and Varying Hare never reached farther than 
Greenland. —This feems the progrefs of Quadrupeds in the frigid zone, as high 
as land is found. 
® Faun, Groenl. p. 26. + Same, p. 17.—=Leems Lapm, 2145 215. 
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