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Kamtfchatka, nor in any country inhabited by the Rein—a line in @ 
manner feparates them. 
Their fkins are an article of commerce imported * by the Hud/on’s 
Bay company ; but brought from the diftant parts far inland by the 
Indians, who bring them from the neighborhood of the lakes. In 
moft parts of North America they are called the Grey Moofe, and the 
Elk; this has given occafion to the miftaken notion of that great 
animal being found in Virginia, and other fouthern provinces. 
The Stags of America grow very fat: their tallow is much ef- 
teemed for making of candles. The Indians fhoot them. As they 
are very fhy animals, the natives cover themfelves with a hide, leaving 
the horns erect; under fhelter of which they walk within reach of 
the herd. De Brie, in the xxvth plate of the Hiftory of Florida, gives 
a very curious reprefentation of this artful method of chafe, when it 
was vifited by the French in 1564. 
Stags are totally extirpated in Rafia, but abound in the mounta- 
nous fouthern traét of Sidiria, where they grow to a fize far fuperior to 
what is known in Europe. The height of a grown Hind is four feet 
nine inches and a half, its length eight feet ; that of its head one foot 
eight inches and a half. 
The fpecies ceafes in the north-eaftern parts of Sidiriz, nor are any 
found in Kamt/chatka. 
Hit. Quad, N° 46.—Lev. Mus. 
EER. With round and flender horns, bending greatly forward ; 
numerous branches on the interior fides: deftitute of brow ant- 
lers: color of the body a cinereous brown; head of a deep brown: 
belly, fides, fhoulders, and thighs, white, mottled with brown: tail 
* In the fale of 1764, 1307 were entered. 
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