: R E I N. 
Bay. ‘They are met with in Labrador, and again in Newfoundland, 
originally wafted thither acrofs the narrow ftraits of Belleifle, on 
iflands of ice. 
They fpread northerly into Greenland, particularly on the weftern 
coaft, about Dio *. Ican find no traces (even traditional) of them in 
Iceland ; which is the more furprizing, as that ifland lies nearer to Green- 
land than Newfoundland does to the Labrador coaft. It is probable © 
that they were deftroyed in very early times, when that ifland was fo 
infinitely more populous than it is at prefent; and the farther mi- 
eration of thefe animals prevented by the amazing aggregate of ice, 
which in later ages blocked up and even depopulated the eaftern 
fide of Greenland. No vegetable, not even mofs, is to be found on 
that extenfive coaft to fupport thefe hardy animals. Their laft 
migration was from the weftern parts of Greenland, over unknown 
regions and fields of ice, to the inhofpitable Alps of Spitzbergen. 
Thefe, with the Polar Bear and Arétic Fox, form the fhort catalogue 
of its quadrupeds. They refide there throughout the year; and by 
wondrous inftiné do difcover their food, the lichen rangiferinus, be- 
neath the fnow, which they remove to great depths by means of their 
broad and fpade-like antlers; and thus find fubfiftence thirteen de- 
grees beyond the /4réic circle f. 
To the weftern fide of Hudfon’s Bay I trace the Rein as far as the 
nation called Les Plat-coté des Chiens ~, the remoteft we are ac- 
quainted with in the parallel of that latitude. Beyond, are lands 
unknown, till we arrive at that new-difcovered chain of iflands, which 
extends to within a {mall diftance of 4/2, or the northern cape of Kamt- 
fchatka, where I again recover thefe animals. There is reafon to ima- 
gine that they are continued acrofs the continent of America, but not 
on the iflands which intervene between it and 4fa|}. But in the 
* Egede, 59. Crantz, i. 70.—The Canadiazs call it Le Caribou. + Mar- 
ten’s Spitzbergen, 99. Phipps’s voy. 185. t Dobés’s Hudfon’s Bay, 19. 
 Maller’s uoyages from. Afia to America, Preface xxv. 
& ifle 
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Laprapor. 
NEwFouNnDLAND» 
GREENLAND» 
SPITZBERGEN, 
KamTScHaTKAs 
