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of a year, will grow two feet in length, and weigh 

 from two to four pounds. 



The aniorous season with these animals is in the 

 month of September, From September to March 

 the bucks and does herd together ; early in the 

 Spring they separate, and the does secrete them- 

 selves in order to bring forth their young; which 

 generally happens in the month of April. The fe- 

 male generally bears two, and sometimes three, at 

 a birth. The fawns are red, most beautifully spot- 

 ted with white. They are easily tamed, and become 

 as eentle and domestic as a calf. 



The deer is an animal of great mildness and ac- 

 tivity. They are always in motion; and leap ovel'. 

 our highest fences with the greatest ease. The 

 largest deer of which I have a particular account, 

 weighed three hundred and eight pounds. 



The deer are numerous in Vermont; and on ac- 

 count of their flesh and skin are of much value. 



The rein deer is not to be found in this part of the 

 continent. But there seems to be another species of 

 the American deer, distinguished chiefly by its horns, 

 and often by its colour. The horns of this deer are 

 never extensive, broad and branched like those of 

 the common deer : but they are round, thick, but 

 little curved, and not more than tenor twelve inches 

 in length. This species is generally larger than the 

 other : several of them have large white spots, and 

 some have been killed which were wholly white.* 



Wild sheefL* Notwithstanding the assertion of 

 Buffon, that two animals of the same species were 

 not placed by nature in the Old and New World, 



, * Williatns's Vermont. 



