22 2 AMERICAN GAME. 
Cuvier and Richardson, and Audubon’s stupendous 
work are not attainable by general readers, or even 
ordinary writers of cities; to those of the country they 
are utterly inaccessible—but to Encyclopadists, and to 
men who sit down to reproduce great works on Natural 
History, who choose to consult them, they are perfectly 
and easily open; and there is no shadow of excuse for 
those who profess to teach others, yet refuse to learn 
themselves. 
Had the writer of the above worthless trash thought fit 
to compare Dr. Richardson’s description of the Cariboo, 
which it seems he had read—and which, like all that 
singularly able naturalist’s descriptions, is doubtless as 
minute as correct—with Cnvier’s description of the 
Reindeer, he might have pronounced as easily as he 
could whether two and two makes four or five, whether 
the American and Europe-Asiatic deer are identical or 
different. Godman, in his “Quadrupeds of North 
America,” though a little more definite than Dr. Leiber, 
is scarce less bold and brief. Dr. Dekay, whose la- 
mented life has recently been brought to an untimely 
close, though he suspected it to be a denizen of 
New York, was not fully assured of the fact, and there- 
fore has not, I think, described it in his Fauna of that 
State. ‘ 
I have myself, unfortunately, no immediate access to 
either Richardson or Cuvier; nor even to any well estab- 
lished work on the Animals of Northern Europe. But 
